Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and pv. atrofaciens cause diseases of wheat and other cereals, most harmful at early spring on winter crops. It was a problem in the USA from 1960-70 (Otto, 1976, 1977).
What can we do to reduce the development of this disease?
I think You have better to check for the limiting temperatures of the bacterium, if it likes lower temperatures and needs low temperatures, You can keep host-pathogen window close using late-heading cultivars that head when it is warmer. However, the best control approach would be the use of resistant cultivars that can be performed in combination with crop rotation and the use of certified healthy/ sterilized seeds in order to decrease selection pressure on pathogen population through restriction of its population and increase of the durability of plant resistance.
Thank you, Babak. You opinion was supported by majority of plant pathologists who have worked with basal glume rot.
Dear Alex, I have innovative ideas against powdery mildews and vascular plant diseases and sap-sucking insects, and on the production of new genetic transformation systems for aseptate multinucleate fungi, but as I live in Iran with poor education and laboratories, then I am not skilled with techniques. Even, for wheat I have good idea against its bacteria and fungi.
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