Bacterial canker caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. viticola (Xcv) is the most important bacterial disease of grapevine in the region of Submédio São Francisco. The resistance of 20 grapevine clones, 13 scions and seven rootstocks, was evaluated in greenhouse. Plants were inoculated with suspension of the strain Xcv1 (A570 = 108CFU mL-1), incubated in greenhouse and daily evaluated for epidemiological components of bacterial canker: incubation period, incidence of leaves with symptoms, incidence of leaves with canker, disease severity, progress rate of disease incidence, and area under the disease severity progress curve. All clones were susceptible to the pathogen, although significantly differing among them (P=0.05) for most of all variables. Generally 'Brasil' showed the highest disease levels for all variables tested while 'Isabel' and 'Paulsen 1103' presented the highest values of incubation period and the lowest values of incidence of leaves with symptoms, with canker, disease severity, progress rate of disease incidence, and area under the disease severity progress curve, suggesting that these clones can be used in breeding and integrated management programs. The significant correlations (P=0.05) among variables indicated anyone could be used to analyze the reaction of grapevine clones to bacterial canker. Considering all the epidemiological components, the grouping according to the UPGMA method (unweighted par group method using arithmetic average) allowed the separation of scion and rootstock clones into three similarity groups each.
Vitis spp.; genetic resistance; incidence; severity
