Eradicate wild Kiwifruit in case they harbour PSA disease...
Image via WikipediaForest and Bird is calling for the eradication of wild kiwifruit vines in Bay of Plenty following an outbreak of the devastating PSA disease that is spreading through Kiwifruit orchards in New Zealand in recent weeks...
Thirteen Bay of Plenty kiwifruit orchards have been confirmed with the bacteria PSA, with 16 orchards quarantined.
Forest and Bird Kaimai Mamaku Campaign chairman Peter Maddison said wild kiwifruit vines could harbour the bacteria and should be destroyed.
"Now is an ideal opportunity to eradicate these vines and reinstate the areas as native wildlife
corridors," he said.
"We recognise that the wilding kiwifruit are mainly the green variety, rather than the initially infected gold variety, but we believe the wild vines could still act as reservoirs for re-infestation of kiwifruit orchards."
Dr Maddison said other species of the kiwifruit family should also be checked for signs of PSA.
Acknowledgements: - NZPA http://peter-petterson.blogspot.com
Labels: bacteria, Bay of Plenty, Kiwifruit, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (New Zealand), New Zealand, Orchard, Pseudomonas syringae, Quarantine
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