cichorium endivia/necrosis

A post-harvest bacterial decay was observed on ready-to-use French endives in Argentina. Affected chicons showed browning and soft-rot of inner leaves and marginal necrosis. Physiological and biochemical tests allowed us to identify the isolates from endive as Pseudomonas fluorescens bv. III,

During the fall of 2013, endive (Cichorium endivia L.) and escarole (C. endivia ssp. latifolia) fields in New Jersey were found with severe disease symptoms. The cores of the heads were necrotic and rotted, while outer leaves were yellow with more pronounced yellowing of veins and occasional veinal

METHODS Lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) belongs to the genus Potyvirus (type species Potato virus Y) in the family Potyviridae. BACKGROUND The virion is filamentous, flexuous with a length of 750 nm and a width of 15 nm. The particles are made of a genomic RNA of 10 080 nucleotides, covalently linked to