Vol. 72 (2019)

• Title Pages

  NZPP Editor

  i-ii

• Table of Contents

  The Editor

  iii-vii

• Author Index

  NZPP Editor

  viii-ix

• Foreword

  Eirian Jones

  x-xi

• Pathogenicity of Ilyonectria pseudodestructans propagules to grapevine rootstocks

  Chantal M. Probst, Hayley J. Ridgway, Marlene V. Jaspers, E. Eirian Jones

  1-9

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• The current outbreak of stemphylium leaf blight of onion in New Zealand – identification of cause and review of possible risk factors associated with the disease

  Peter J. Wright, Bruce Searle, Joy L. Tyson, Kieran D. Mellow

  10-20

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• Pathogenicity of Phoma betae isolates from red beet (Beta vulgaris) at seed farms in Canterbury, New Zealand

  Nitesh Chand, E. Eirian Jones, Seona Casonato

  21-26

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• Fate of mycelial and conidial propagules of Ilyonectria and Dactylonectria species in soil

  Chantal Probst, Dudley Crabbe, Hayley Ridgway, Marlene V. Jaspers, E. Eirian Jones

  27-35

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• Trapping for early detection of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, in New Zealand

  Timothy F. Vandervoet, David E. Bellamy, Diane Anderson, Rory MacLellan

  36-43

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• Establishing a base for understanding the threat of the brown marmorated stink bug to plants of value to Maori / E whakarite ana he tuapapa e marama ai i nga kino o te ngarara pihau parauri ki nga tipu e whai hua ki te Maori

  David A.J. Teulon, Aleise Puketapu, Hone T. Ropata, Ross Bicknell

  44-58

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• Development of heat treatments for two species of Samoan fruit flies (Bactrocera spp., Diptera: Tephritidae)

  Fa'alelei Tunupopo, Fai'ilagi Sa'ili, Lisa E. Jamieson, Samuel D.J. Brown

  59-66

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• A comparison of postharvest quality of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) after disinfestation with hot air or hot water treatments

  Seeseei Molimau-Samasoni, Veronica Vaaiva, Semi Seruvakula, Angelika Tugaga, Guinevere Ortiz, Stephen Wallace, Mark Seelye, Barbara C. Waddell, Samuel D.J. Brown, Lisa E. Jamieson, Allan Woolf

  67-74

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• Neofabraea actinidiae in New Zealand kiwifruit orchards: current status and knowledge gaps

  Joy L. Tyson, Michael A. Manning, Kerry R. Everett, Robert A. Fullerton

  75-83

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• Understanding flower-bud rot development caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae in green-fleshed kiwifruit

  M. Shahjahan Kabir, Bethan E. Parry, Joy L. Tyson, Robert M. Beresford

  83-88

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• Preliminary pathogenicity screening of Verticillium spp. on kiwifruit in New Zealand

  Kieran D. Mellow, Joy L. Tyson, Michael A. Manning, Peter J. Wright

  89-94

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• How much captan is required for wound protection of Neonectria ditissima conidial infection in apple?

  Monika Walter, David W.L. Manktelow, Fanny Le Berre, Rebecca E. Campbell, Lauren Turner, Lizelle Vorster, Emma Patrick, Ruth C. Butler, Grant L. Northcott

  95-102

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• Successive passaging through an apple host of six low-virulent Neonectria ditissima isolates increased virulence in one of them

  Reiny W.A. Scheper, Brent M. Fisher, Joanna K. Bowen, Nicholas T. Amponsah, Duncan I. Hedderley

  103-116

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• Can phosphorous acid be used to control Neonectria ditissima in New Zealand grown apples?

  Jason Smith, Monika Walter, Rebecca E. Campbell, Lauren Turner

  117-122

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• Lesion development and conidial production of Neonectria ditissima on apple trees in four New Zealand regions

  Reiny W.A. Scheper, Lizelle Vorster, Lauren Turner, Rebecca E. Campbell, Kate Colhoun, Danielle McArley, Rosalind Murti, Andrew Hodson, Robert Beresford, Maryam Stock, Brent M. Fisher, Duncan I. Hedderley, Monika Walter

  123-134

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• Effects of various ecological factors on the germination of two crop and pasture weed species, Vulpia bromoides and Vulpia myuros

  Sandra Weller, Singarayer Florentine, Bhagirath S. Chauhan, Ako Mahmood, Arunthathy Florentine

  135-146

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• Factors affecting germination of great bindweed (Calystegia silvatica) seeds

  Kerry C. Harrington, Tracey L. Gawn, Cory Matthew, Hossein Ghanizadeh

  147-152

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• Roadside mowing spreads yellow bristle grass (Setaria pumila) seeds further than by natural dispersal

  Trevor K. James, Michael R. Trolove, Claire A. Dowsett

  153-157

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• The impact of cutting prior to goat grazing on variegated thistle (Silybum marianum)

  Rose Greenfield, Katherine Tozer, Gosia Zobel, Catherine Cameron, Elizabeth North

  158-165

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• Investigating time and economic costs of botrytis bunch rot sampling using interpolated data

  Gareth N. Hill, Peter Jaksons, Joanna M. Sharp, Adrian G. Hunt, Kai S.J. Lewis

  166-175

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• Mapping European canker spatial pattern and disease progression in apples using GIS, Tasman, New Zealand

  Diletta Di Iorio, Monika Walter, Egbert Lantinga, Huub Kerckhoffs, Rebecca E. Campbell

  176-184

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• Comparison of four off-the-shelf unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and two photogrammetry programmes for monitoring pasture and cropping field trials

  Michael R. Trolove, Paul Shorten

  185-194

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• Paper-based inoculum of Bacillus megaterium and its practical application for simple culture preparation

  Mana Kanjanamaneesathian, Wasunan Nimanong

  195-204

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• Comparison of aqueous seasoning cube solution and nutrient broth as culture media for production of the biocontrol agent Bacillus megaterium in the laboratory, and for suppression of rice grain discolouration in the field

  Mana Kanjanamaneesathian, Pimjai Meetum

  205-212

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• Potential biological control of take-all disease in perennial ryegrass

  Abdullah Umar, Diwakar R.W. Kandula, John G. Hampton, M. Phil Rolston, Soonie F. Chng

  213-220

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• The potential management of the drone fly (Eristalis tenax) as a crop pollinator in New Zealand

  Brad G. Howlett, Megan Gee

  221-230

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• The effectiveness of two types of adhesive for catching insects in traps

  Peter L. Lo, Roger Wallis, David E. Bellamy

  230-236

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• Preferences of the wheat bug (Nysius huttoni) for particular growth stages of the potential trap crop, alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

  Sundar Tiwari, David J. Saville, Stephen D. Wratten

  237-244

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• A comparison of two methods to determine the susceptibility of sawtoothed grain beetle (Oryzaephilus surinamensis) populations to pirimiphos-methyl from Canterbury, New Zealand

  Joanne B. Drummond, R. Bruce Chapman

  245-252

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• Virulence of the plant-associated endophytic fungus Lecanicillium muscarium to diamondback moth larvae

  Michal Kuchár, Travis R. Glare, John G. Hampton, Ian A. Dickie, Mary C. Christey

  253-259

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• Impact of generalist predation on two weed biocontrol agents in New Zealand

  Quentin Paynter, Paul Peterson, Samantha Cranwell, Chris J. Winks, Zane McGrath

  260-264

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• Distribution of Puccinia punctiformis in above-ground tissue of Cirsium arvense (Californian thistle)

  Caitlin Henderson, Michael Cripps, Seona Casonato

  265-270

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• Fruit drop in two kiwifruit varieties and the use of two Bacillus-based biofungicides

  Seona Casonato

  271-277

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• New Zealand Plant Protection Medal 2018

  Barbara Barratt

  285-286

• Dan Watkins Scholarship in Weed Science

  Thomas Carlin

  287

• New Zealand Plant Protection Society Research Scholarship

  Tom Saunders

  288

• Obituary - Dr Ronald Close

  Ian Harvey

  289-290

• Executive Committee and Life Members

  NZPP Editor

  291

• Rules of the Society

  NZPP Editor

  292-295

• NZPPS List of Publications

  NZPP Editor

  296-297

Poster Abstracts

• Next-generation DNA sequencing shows a microbiota shift after an incursion of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) on a single kiwifruit orchard

  I.P. Shamini Pushparajah, Daniel F. Jones, Kerry R. Everett

  278

• Testing new PCR primers and a TaqMan™ probe for detection of Phlyctema vagabunda syn. Neofabraea alba

  Michelle J. Vergara, I.P. Shamini Pushparajah, John F. Mackay, Kerry R. Everett

  278

• Ustilago maydis yeast stage found on imported sweet corn

  Merje Toome-Heller, Brett J.R. Alexander

  279

• Current and planned research for managing the fruit fly threat to New Zealand

  David A.J. Teulon, John M. Kean, Karen F. Armstrong

  279

• Enhancing plant disease diagnostics in the Pacific

  Katharina M. Hofer, Merje Toome-Heller, Brett J.R. Alexander

  280

• Better biological control in glasshouses: synergies between biological control agents from different guilds and floral resources

  Emiliano R. Veronesi, Oluwashola Olaniyan, Stephen D. Wratten, Melanie Davidson, Chris Thompson

  280

• Arthropod pests of kiwifruit identified from Chinese language literature

  Bingqin Xu, David A.J. Teulon

  281

• An insight into biosecurity plant-disease diagnostics at MPI

  Robert K. Taylor, Merje Toome-Heller, Wellcome W.H. Ho, Brett J.R. Alexander

  281

• Validation of qPCR assays for the detection of citrus canker

  Hui Wen Lee, Wellcome W.H. Ho, Raja Thangavel, Jeyaseelan Baskarathevan, Brett J.R. Alexander

  282

• Heat treatments of dormant scion wood killed the European canker pathogen in planta, while chemical treatments did not

  Brent M. Fisher, Reiny W.A. Scheper

  282

• Parasitism of diamondback moth Plutella xylostella by the solitary parasitoid wasp Cotesia vestalis in Samoa

  Hau’ofa Siasau, Rashmi Kant

  283

• Galling in Actinidia spp. seedlings

  Mary B. Horner, Ellena Carroll, Jayne Wilton, Will Barrett

  283

• Current and planned research for managing the risk of Xylella fastidiosa to New Zealand

  Sandra B. Visnovsky, Robert K. Taylor, David A.J. Teulon

  284

• Semi-commercial hot water treatments for control of bull’s eye rot of apples

  Luna Hasna, Kerry R. Everett, Michelle J. Vergara, I.P. Shamini Pushparajah, Peter N. Wood, Brent M. Fisher, Lucia R. Ramos, Carol Middleditch, Shane Olsson, Agam Nangul, Jung Ook Cho, Allan B. Woolf

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