* EPPO (2024) EPPO Technical Document No. 1091. Pest risk analysis for Chloridea virescens. EPPO, Paris. Available at https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/HELIVI/documents
------- Doubtful host. See details in Annex 6 of the PRA.
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------- Experimental. Causing wilted leaflets. Not confirmed in other publications. Pending confirmation, all monocotyledonous host plants reported by Stamova & Satirova (1987) are considered doubtful.
* González-Jartín JM, Alfonso A, Sainz MJ, Vieytes MR, Aguín O, Ferreiroa V, Botana LM (2019) First report of Fusarium foetens as a mycotoxin producer. Mycotoxin Research 35, 177-186.
-------- Isolated from kernels but asymptomatic. Host status would need to be further studied.
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------- It is not specified whether the nematode was found in the roots or in the soil.
* Siddiqi MR (1973) Hirschmanniella oryzae. C.I.H. Descriptions of plant-parasitic nematodes 2. CIP, St. Albans, UK.
* Anonymous (1960) Index of Plant Diseases in the United States. Agriculture Handbook no 165, USDA-ARS (US) 531 pp.
------- noted as host.
* Lyda SD, 1978. Ecology of Phymatotrichum omnivorum. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 16, 193–209. Available
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-------- in experiments, lesions were visible on the corn roots from infested soil but no P. omnivorum could be recovered. Can affect corn plants in sterile medium, but not in fields.
* Uppalapati SR, Young CA, Marek SM, Mysore KS (2010) Phymatotrichum (cotton) root rot caused by Phymatotrichopsis omnivora: Retrospects and prospects. Molecular Plant Pathology 11(3), 325-334.
------- noted as non host.
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* Harveson RM, Schwartz HF, Urrea CA, Yonts CD (2015) Bacterial wilt of dry-edible beans in the central high plains of the U.S.: past, present, and future. Plant Disease 99, 1665–1677.
------- When grown in rotation with infected dry bean crops. Maize was also infected by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis.
* Paradell SL, Virla EG, Logarzo GA, Dellapé G (2012) Proconiini Sharpshooters of Argentina, with notes on its distribution, host plants, and natural enemies. Journal of Insect Science 12, 116. http://www.insectscience.org/12.116
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------- Affected maize plants were stunted. Host status confirmed by inoculation experiments.
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* Hooper D.J (1972) Ditylenchus dipsaci. CIH Descriptions of Plant-parasitic Nematodes Set 1, No. 14.
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* Purcell AH, Frazier NW (1985) Habitats and dispersal of the principal leafhopper vectors of Pierce's disease bacterium in the San Joaquin Valley. Hilgardia 53(4), 1-32.
------- Feeding host.
* Gill HK, Capinera JL, McSorley R (2017) Featured Creatures. Lesser cornstalk borer. Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Zeller) (Insecta: lepidoptera: Pyralidae). University of Florida (US). http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/lesser_cornstalk_borer.htm
* Sandhu HS (2010) Biology and cultural control of lesser cornstalk borer on sugarcane. PhD thesis. University of Florida. https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/04/14/72/00001/sandhu_h.pdf
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------- Natural non-Pinus host.
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------- Nymph host.
* De Luca F, Vovlas N, Lucarelli G, Troccoli A, Radicci V, Fanelli E, Cantalapiedra-Navarrete C, Palomares Rius JE, Castillo P (2013) Heterodera elachista the Japanese cyst nematode parasitizing corn in Northern Italy: integrative diagnosis and bionomics. European Journal of Plant Pathology 136(4), 857-872.
-------Found in maize crop in 2012 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
* Xiao DX, Feng YX, Zhou Y, Xuan YH, Chen LJ, Wang YY, Liu XY, Duan YX, Zhu XF (2019) First report of Heterodera elachista on Zea mays and Echinochloa crusgalli var. mitis in Liaoning Province, China. Plant Disease 103(6), 1433-1434.
------- On roots of maize (Liaoning province, China). No above ground symptoms were observed.
* Turner WF, Pollard HN (1959) Life histories and behavior of five insect vectors of phony peach disease. United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin 1188, 28 pp.
-------- Feeding host.
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------- Nymphs found feeding on this plant.
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------In experiments, cv. 'AG 50 20' was found to be a good host (RF>= 1)
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------- in experiment in Brazil, maize is recorded as a 'non-host' (RF<1).
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------- In experiments, cultivars tested showed variable host status from poor host (Apex, Merit F1), to good host (cvs. Otello, Sy Lucroso).
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-------In experiments, breeding line PR38F70 SI was found to be a good host (RF = 2.8)
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------- adult feeding only.
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------- as food plant of Oncometopia undata.
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-------"the number of maize plants which were infected was very small".
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------- Collected from this plant in Java (Indonesia).
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------- Collected from this plant in Java (Indonesia).
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------- Confirmed host.
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------- Larval host.
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-------- Larval and adult host.
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------- Larval host.
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------- Severe damage in crops following infested pasture.
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------- confirmed host
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--------- Laboratory experiments conducted in Indonesia, maize was found to be the most suitable host.
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