Satu Latvala

TL;DR: Harmonised sampling and virus detection procedures including bioassays and serological and molecular methods were employed by 21 research institutions to detect PMTV in potato tubers and soil samples in 2005‐2008.

TL;DR: The data suggest that this virus may be the causal agent of reversion disease, and it is tentatively called black currant reversion associated virus.

TL;DR: 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum' (CLso) haplotype C is associated with disease in carrots and transmitted by the carrot psyllid Trioza apicalis, and samples were taken of wild plants within and near the carrot fields, the psyllids feeding on these plants, parsnips growing next to carrots, and carrot seeds.

TL;DR: Fusarium proliferatum seems to be more aggressive on onion, and some of the F. redolens isolates were highly virulent, killing onion seedlings, and more research is required to determine to what extent Fusarium infections spoiling onions originate from infected onion sets rather than the field soil.

TL;DR: The detection of BRAV by immuno-capture reverse-transcriptase PCR (IC-RT-PCR) in redcurrant and in the wild species, Ribes spicatum and R. alpinum, but not in the non-host, gooseberry, graft-inoculated with scions from reverted blackcurrant plants, adds further support to the suggestion that BRAV is the causal agent of reversion disease.