Identification and life cycle

Impacts

Status

P. ramorum has not been recorded in Kentucky. A state and federal quarantine is in place to restrict movement of this pathogen.

Action

Quarantine, eradication. There is currently a federal and state quarantine against movement of nursery stock originating in areas of known P. ramorum infestation.

Links

"Are Kentucky's Forests Threatened By Sudden Oak Death?" - article by Drs. Patricia de Sá by John Hartman from UK Plant Pathology Department in Kentucky Woodlands Magazine, July 2006

Sudden Oak Death Survey Results in Kentucky - Not found in Kentucky up to 2006

California Oak Mortality Task Force site
"The California Oak Mortality Task Force (COMTF) focuses on the plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, which can have devastating effects in the wildlands it inhabits and has had substantial impacts on the nursery industry internationally." (from site)