Potato Plant Bacterial Diseases Quiz

Clavibacter michiganense subsp. sepedonicum

Symptoms are usually overlooked or masked by other diseases

20-29°C

<p>It oozes creamy exudate out of the vascular bundles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yellowing of leaf veins with necrotic leaf margins</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The interveinal areas of its leaflets turn yellowish, and the leaf margins roll upward and become necrotic. The leaves then begin to wilt, continuing until all the leaves of the stem wilt and the stem then dies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Losses of up to 50% of the crop have been noted in severe infections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creamy colonies, Gram positive, Non motile, Aerobic, round or pleomorphic rod, Non-spore forming.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infected plants usually don't show aboveground symptoms until they are fully grown or the symptoms occur so late in the season that they are overlooked or masked by other diseases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In years with cool springs and warm summers, one or more of the stems may appear stunted.</p> Signup and view all the answers