The citrus canker, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri Valterin et alii 1995, is a known disease world-wide known and it is always a serious threat for the brazilian citriculture. The objective of the present study was to analyze the climatic conditions of the State of São Paulo in order to develop zone maps of great risk for citrus canker epidemics. They had been used given meteorological referring from the years 2002 to 2005, which had been used in the model of forecast of citrus canker developed by Campbell and Madden in 1990 and Hau and Kranz in 1990. The data frequency was in hourly and when some metheorological station showed problems in the data series, these had been surpassed of the nearest station. After the accounting of the indexes had been calculated the percentages of days favorable to the occurrence of the disease in the period of one year. From this information, the thematic maps of the state of São Paulo had been generated, with the space distribution of the percentage of days favorable to the occurrence of citrus canker. The region the northwest region of the state was the one that presented the greatest percentage of days favorable to the occurrence of the disease.
Citrus; Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri; Geofithopathology
