EPPO Global Database

Fusarium circinatum(GIBBCI)

Distribution details in Portugal

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2020: Present, few occurrences
First recorded in: 2007
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, under eradication, only in some parts of the Member State concerned (2019-07)
From CABI Disease map 753 (2012): Present, few occurrences
Comments
An official survey was initiated in 2007 and the pathogen was not found.

EPPO Reporting Service (2009/196) : first detected in 2007 in 1 nursery in Anadia, central region of Portugal, on Pinus radiata and P. pinaster.
References
* Bragança H, Diogo E, Moniz F, Amaro P (2009) First report of pitch canker on pines caused by Fusarium circinatum in Portugal. Plant Disease 93(10), p 1079.

* Drenkhan R, Ganley B, Martín-García J, Vahalík P, Adamson K, Adamčíková K, Ahumada R, Blank L, Bragança H, Capretti P, Cleary M (2020) Global geographic distribution and host range of Fusarium circinatum, the causal agent of pine pitch canker. Forests. 11 (7), 724.
-------Detected for the first time in a plantation in Minho province in 2016, and again in 2018. Pinus plants in nurseries and in forests were destroyed and the surrounding area intensively surveyed with no further positive findings to date

* NPPO of Portugal (2008-02, 2017-10, 2017-12, 2019-07).
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Spain Present, restricted distribution view...