EPPO Global Database

Phytophthora kernoviae(PHYTKE)

Distribution details in New Zealand

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2021: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2006
From CABI Disease map 1023 (2008): Present, restricted distribution
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2006/060) : found in North Island in 2006 in 2 samples during a survey, under official control

EPPO Reporting Service (2008/186) : although P. kernoviae was first reported in 2006, tracing investigations revealed that it was likely to be present already in the 1960s. It was also found in soil samples from North Island.

McDougal & Ganley (2021): detected in foliage samples of Pinus radiata dated from 1986, 1999, 2000, 2002. The presence of P. kernoviae in pine foliage since 1986 suggests that P. kernoviae may be associated with physiological needle blight, a disorder of P. radiata with a previously unknown cause.
References
* Anon. (2006) Biosecurity 67, 18-19.
------- On cherimoya (Annona cherimola).

*Anon. (2008) Phytophthora kernoviae: Past investigation throws up new answers. Biosecurity 82, March issue, p 21.

* Dick MA, Ramsfield T (2006) Forest Health News 161, 1.
------- Rotorua.

* Fraser S, Gomez‐Gallego M, Gardner J, Bulman LS, Denman S, Williams NM (2020) Impact of weather variables and season on sporulation of Phytophthora pluvialis and Phytophthora kernoviae. Forest Pathology 50(2):e12588.

* MAF (2006) Biosecurity New Zealand investigates new fungus in Northland. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/press/240306fungus.htm.
------- Northland, North Island on Annona sp.

* McDougal RL, Ganley R.J (2021) Foliar Phytophthora in New Zealand plantation forests: historical presence of Phytophthora kernoviae and association with a previously undiagnosed disorder of Pinus radiata. Australasian Plant Pathology, 50(6), 747-759.