EPPO Global Database

Verticillium nonalfalfae hop strains(VERTAH)

Distribution details in United Kingdom

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2006: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
Reporting Service 521/03 of 1992-03: the regulatory status of verticillium wilt of hop in the UK has recently changed, to reflect the fact that continuous variation in aggressiveness is now recognized, rather than division into two distinct groups of strains - "progressive" and "fluctuating", the former restricted to south-east England and the latter occurring also in the West Midlands. Eradication measures and restrictions on cultivar use have been withdrawn, but regulations on healthy planting material and on movement of used hop poles and picking machinery are maintained.

From Radišek et al. (2006): verticillium wilt was first recorded in England in 1924. Severe outbreaks appeared in 1933. Both mild and lethal types of isolates have been reported in England.
References
* Harris RV (1927) A wilt disease of hops. East Malling Research Station Annual Report for 1925, II Suplement, 92–93.

* Isaac I, Keyworth WG (1948) Verticillium wilt of the hop (Humulus lupulus). A study of the pathogenicity of isolates from fluctuating and from progressive outbreaks. Annals of Applied Biology 35, 243–249.

* NPPO of the United Kingdom (1992).

* Radišek S, Jakše J, Javornik B (2006) Genetic variability and virulence among Verticillium albo-atrum isolates from hop. European Journal of Plant Pathology 116, 301-314.

* Sewell GWF, Wilson JF (1984) The nature and distribution of Verticillium albo-atrum strains highly pathogenic to the hop. Plant Pathology 33, 39–51.
------ Lethal strains isoalted in Kent.