Maria Nevis Deconto Weber

Primeira ocorrência de Pythium sp. e Rhizoctonia sp. causando podridão-de-raízes em ervais no Rio Grande do Sul.

In 2004, some plantations of Ilex paraguariensis A. St.-Hil. In Taquari Valley, state of Rio Grande do Sul, started presenting growth stagnation, yellowing, leaf drop and necrosis in the root system, typical symptoms of root rot. Roots samples were collected in farms of two cities and sent for analysis at the Plant Disease Laboratory at the Department of Plant Protection/CCR/UFSM. The presence of Rhizoctonia and Pythium was diagnosed and these were pathogenic when inoculated in plants of erva-mate . This is the first observation of these two fungi causing root rot in erva-mate plantations in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

Doença Cria Giz Ascosphaera apis (Maassen ex Claussen) Olive & Spiltoir em abelhas Apis mellifera L. na Depressão Central do Rio Grande do Sul

The occurrence of chalk brood disease in colonies of the honey bee Apis mellifera located at the apiary of the Department of Zootecnia of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, was evidenced in 2004. Hard and mummified honey bee larvae were collected from failed combs found in poorly populated colonies. These samples were analyzed in the Laboratory of Phytopathology, at the Plant Protection Department (UFSM), where the presence of fungal structures typical of Ascosphaera apis were observed. This fungus is known to cause chalk-brood disease. This is the first record of the presence of this disease in the central region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, characterizing the dissemination of the disease coming from the border with Uruguay and Argentina.