List of potato diseases
This is a list of diseases and disorders found in potatoes.
Bacterial diseases
Bacterial Diseases | |
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Bacterial wilt = brown rot |
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Blackleg and bacterial soft rot |
Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. atrosepticum
P. c. subsp. carotovorum
carotovora
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Pink eye | Pseudomonas fluorescens |
Ring rot |
Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus
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Common scab |
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Zebra chip = Psyllid yellows? |
Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum |
Fungal diseases
Fungal diseases | |
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Black dot |
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Brown spot and Black pit |
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Cercospora leaf blotch |
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Charcoal rot |
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Choanephora blight | |
Common rust | |
Deforming rust | |
Early blight | |
Fusarium dry rot | Fusarium spp.
Other spp. include: |
Fusarium wilt | Fusarium spp. |
Gangrene |
Phoma solanicola f. foveata
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Gray mold |
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Phoma leaf spot |
Ph. andigena var. andina |
Powdery mildew | |
Rhizoctonia canker and black scurf | |
Rosellinia black rot |
Rosellinia sp.
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Septoria leaf spot | |
Silver scurf | |
Skin spot | |
Stem rot (southern blight) | |
Thecaphora smut |
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Ulocladium blight | |
Verticillium wilt | |
Wart | |
White mold | |
Protistan diseases
Protistan diseases | |
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Late blight (oomycete) | |
Leak (oomycete) |
Pythium spp. |
Pink rot (oomycete) |
Phytophthora spp. |
Powdery scab (Rhizaria) | |
Viral and viroid diseases
Viral and viroid diseases | |
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Alfalfa mosaic virus | genus Alfamovirus, Alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV) |
Andean potato latent virus | genus Tymovirus, Andean potato latent virus (APLV) |
Andean potato mottle virus | genus Comovirus, Andean potato mottle virus (APMV) |
Arracacha virus B - Oca strain | genus Nepovirus, Arracacha virus B Oca strain (AVB-O) |
Beet curly top virus | genus Curtovirus, Beet curly top virus (BCTV) |
Cucumber mosaic virus | genus Cucumovirus, Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) |
Eggplant mottle dwarf virus | genus Rhabdovirus, Eggplant mottle dwarf virus (EMDV) |
Potato aucuba mosaic virus | genus Potexvirus, Potato aucuba mosaic virus (PAMV) |
Potato black ringspot virus | genus Nepovirus, Potato black ringspot virus (PBRSV) |
Potato deforming mosaic virus | genus Geminiviridae Potato deforming mosaic virus subgroup III, (PDMV) |
Potato latent virus | genus Carlavirus, Potato latent virus (PLV) |
Potato leafroll virus | genus Luteovirus, Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) |
Potato mop-top virus (spraing of tubers) | genus Furovirus, Potato mop-top virus (PMTV) |
Potato rugose mosaic | genus Potyvirus, Potato virus Y (PVY, strains O, N and C) |
Potato stem mottle (spraing of tubers) | genus Tobravirus, Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) |
Potato spindle tuber | Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) |
Potato yellow dwarf virus | genus Nucleorhabdovirus, Potato yellow dwarf virus (PYDV) |
Potato yellow mosaic virus | genus Geminiviridae, Potato yellow mosaic virus (PYMV); subgroup III |
Potato yellow vein virus | Potato yellow vein virus (PYVV) |
Potato yellowing virus | genus Alfamovirus, Potato yellowing virus (PYV) |
Potato virus A | genus Potyvirus, Potato virus A (PVA) |
Potato virus M | genus Carlavirus, Potato virus M (PVM) |
Potato virus S | genus Carlavirus, Potato virus S (PVS) |
Potato virus H | genus Carlavirus, Potato virus H (PVH) |
Potato virus T | genus Trichovirus, Potato virus T |
Potato virus U | genus Nepovirus, Potato virus U (PVU) |
Potato virus V | genus Potyvirus, Potato virus V (PVV) |
Potato virus X | genus Potexvirus, Potato virus X (PVX) |
Potato virus Y | genus Potyvirus, Potato virus Y (PVY) |
Solanum apical leaf curling virus | Geminiviridae, Solanum apical leaf curling virus (SALCV) subgroup III |
Sowbane mosaic virus | genus Sobemovirus, Sowbane mosaic virus (SoMV) |
Tobacco mosaic virus | genus Tobamovirus, Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) |
Tobacco necrosis virus | genus Necrovirus, Tobacco necrosis virus (TNV) |
Tobacco rattle virus | genus Tobravirus, Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) |
Tobacco streak virus | genus Ilarvirus, Tobacco streak virus (TSV) |
Tomato black ring virus | genus Nepovirus, Tomato black ring virus (ToBRV) |
Tomato mosaic virus | genus Tobamovirus, Tomato mosaic virus (ToMV) |
Tomato spotted wilt virus | genus Tospovirus, Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) |
Tomato yellow mosaic virus | genus Geminiviridae, Tomato yellow mosaic virus (ToYMV) subgroup III |
Wild potato mosaic virus | genus Potyvirus, Wild potato mosaic virus (WPMV) |
Nematode parasitic
Nematode parasitic | |
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Potato cyst nematode | |
Lesion nematode |
Pratylenchus spp. |
Potato rot nematode | |
Root knot nematode |
Meloidogyne spp. |
Sting nematode | |
Stubby-root nematode |
Paratrichodorus spp. |
Phytoplasmal diseases
Phytoplasmal diseases | |
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Aster yellows | Aster yellows group of phytoplasmas |
Witches'-broom | Witches’ broom phytoplasma |
BLTVA | The beet leafhopper-transmitted virescence agent |
Miscellaneous diseases and disorders
Miscellaneous diseases and disorders | |
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Aerial tubers | Phytoplasma infection or anything that constricts the stem, including but not limited to Rhizoctonia canker, heat necrosis, chemical injury, mechanical injury, wind injury |
Air pollution injury | Photochemical oxidants (primarily ozone), sulfur oxides |
Black heart | Oxygen deficiency of internal tuber tissue |
Blackspot bruise | Bruising, pressure contact |
Elephant hide | Roughening of tuber skin due to physiological or environmental causes |
Hollow heart | Excessively rapid tuber enlargement |
Internal brown spot = heat necrosis | Oxygen deficiency of tuber accompanying high soil temperature |
Jelly end rot | Carbohydrate translocation due to second growth |
Physiological leaf roll | Response to adverse environment |
Psyllid yellows | Toxic saliva of the potato (tomato) psyllid, Paratrioza cockerelli |
Shatter bruise | Mechanical damage to tuber |
Skinning | Mechanical damage to tuber |
Stem-end browning | Exact cause(s) unknown, chemical injury, viruses or other pathogens. |
References
- William Surman (19 August 2010). "Major new disease threat to potatoes". Farmers Guardian / UBM Information Ltd. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- Nowicki, Marcin; et al. (17 August 2011), "Potato and tomato late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans: An overview of pathology and resistance breeding", Plant Dis, Plant Disease, ASP, 96 (1): 4–17, doi:10.1094/PDIS-05-11-0458, PMID 30731850
External links
- Sparks, Adam; Kennelly, Megan (May 2008). "Common Scab of Potato" (PDF). Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. Retrieved 2018-01-06.