Marlborough Trunk Disease Web


 

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Abstracts

Trunk Disease Cost Calculations

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Current research areas and contacts

Dion Mundy - Plant and Food Research

  • Surveys of Grapevine trunk diseases in New Zealand
  • Control and management of diseases
  • Plant and disease interaction for grapevine trunks

Marlene Jaspers - Lincoln University

  • Petri disease, a cause of young vine decline
  • Cylindrocarpon black foot disease, which causes a rot of grapevine roots and stem bases
  • Botryosphaeria dieback of grapevines

 

Basic information about diseases and fungi related to them

Common name

Fungus

Distribution

Botryosphaeria die-back

(also Black dead arm)

 

Botryosphaeria spp.

New Zealand, Italy, North America

Esca

A complex of fungi including

Phaeomoniella chlamydospora and Phaeoacremonium species, Fomitiporia and other basidiomycetes

 

Europe, North America

Eutypa die-back

(also Dying dead arm or Dead arm)

 

Eutypa lata

New Zealand and world wide

Petri disease

Phaeomoniella chlamydospora

New Zealand and world wide

Phomopsis Dead Arm

Phomopsis viticola

New Zealand and world wide

 

Links

International Council on Grapevine Trunk Diseases

Plant & Food Research

Lincoln University

Minitry of Agriculture and Forestry Sustainable Farming Fund