%0 Journal Article
%@ 0931-1785
%A Frederickson, D E
%A Monyo, E S
%A King, S B
%A Odvody, G N
%A Claflin, L E
%D 1999
%F icrisat:3621
%I Blackwell Publishing
%J Journal of Phytopathology
%K bacterial leaf spot, Pseudomonas syrinae
%N 11-12
%P 701-706
%T Presumptive identification of Pseudomonas syringae, the cause of foliar leafspots and streaks on pearl millet in Zimbabwe
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/3621/
%V 147
%X The aetiology of a leafspot disease of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum [P. glaucum]) in Zimbabwe was investigated using Koch's postulates. Bipolaris sp., Exserohilum sp. and bacteria, were isolated from lesions, but only bacterial isolates produced the original symptoms following inoculation of a susceptible pearl millet line, 852B. Biochemical and physiological tests, including LOPAT, indicated that the bacterium was the fluorescent pseudomonad, Pseudomonas syringae. This represents the first report of P. syringae on pearl millet in Africa
%Z D.E. Frederickson thanks the Research Board and Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Zimbabwe for funding and facilities. E.S. Monyo and S.B. King thank ICRISAT for support. We are all grateful to the International Mycological Institute, Surrey, U.K., 	   for further confirming the identities of two representative pathogenic isolates of the nine (accession nos. 373344 and 373345), as Pseudomonas syringae