date:Oct 12, 2012
dy made in co-operation between the Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Roma and Apofruit-Italia, Latina, on these aspects.
There is an obvious relationship between the frost events of 2007-2008 (i.e. November and February) and the first outbreaks of bacterial canker observed on A. chinensis. In the orchards, the first visible signs of the disease (i.e. leaf spotting) were observed in May-June 2008, as confirmed by isolations performed in that period, whereas the first