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During 1998, a new disease appeared on trees representing a Eucalyptus grandis × E. nitens (GN) hybrid in a nursery in KwaZulu/Natal. The disease has subsequently spread to other Eucalyptus species, hybrids, and clones in nurseries and plantations throughout South Africa. Typical symptoms of the disease include dieback of young shoots and leaf blight. This ultimately leads to stunting of trees. The objective of this study was to isolate and identify the causal agent of the disease. A bacterium was consistently isolated from infected tissue. Pathogenicity tests were undertaken with a range of bacterial strains. Four pathogenic strains were selected from different geographical regions and Eucalyptus hosts for further study. The bacterium causing Eucalyptus leaf and shoot blight is gram negative and rod-shaped, varying in size from 0.5 to 0.75 μm wide and 1.0 to 2.0 μm long. Colonies of this bacterium have a yellow pigment. The results from the Biolog tests identified the bacterium as Pantoea agglomerans with a similarity index of 0.315. The 16S rDNA sequences of the purported Pantoea sp. were compared with those of other related Enterobacteriaceae from GenBank/EMBL. Phylogenetic analysis using PAUP revealed that the isolates group together with P. agglomerans, P. ananatis, and P. stewartii subsp. stewartii. The fatty acid profiles and phenotypic characteristics of the new pathogen are similar to P. ananatis, and % G + C is within the range of this species. DNA:DNA hybridization between the four strains and the type strain of P. ananatis conclusively showed that the bacterium causing blight and dieback of Eucalyptus in South Africa belongs to this species. This is the first report in which P. ananatis has been found as a causal agent of a disease on Eucalyptus.

Bacterial Blight and Dieback of Eucalyptus Species, Hybrids, and Clones in South Africa