Bacteria Wilt of Dry-Edible Beans in the Central High Plains of the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future

Authors

R. M. Harveson, University of Nebraska, Panhandle Research and Extension Center, ScottsbluffFollow
Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State UniversityFollow
Carlos A. Urrea, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
C. Dean Yonts, University of Nebraska, Panhandle Research and Extension Center, Scottsbluff, NE

Date of this Version

2015

Citation

Plant Disease /December 2015 1665

Comments

© 2015 The American Phytopathological Society

Abstract

Bacterial wilt, caused by Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens, was first recognized and described as a new dry bean disease near Redfield, SD after the 1921 growing season on the farm of the Office of Forage Investigations (Hedges 1922, 1926a). The grower on this farm informed the federal investigators that he believed the disease to be the same one that killed 90% of his crop in 1920. For the 1921 season, he saved and planted the seed harvested from the previous year, resulting in an estimated 25% loss (Hedges 1926a).