Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Specific bacterial diseases of beans for
which phytosanitary certificates may be issued are:
(a) Halo blight - Pseudomonas
phaseolicola (Burk.) Dows.
(b)Common bean blight - Xanthomonas
phaseoli (E.F. Sm.) Dows.
(c)Fuscous blight - Xanthomonas
phaseoli var. fuscans (Burk.)
(d) Bean bacterial wilt -
Corynebacterium flaccumfa-ciens (Hedges) Dows.
(e)Or any varieties or new strains of these
diseases.
(f)Brown spot disease -
Pseudomonas syringae.
(g)Bean anthracnose - Colletotrichum
lindemuthianum.
(h)
Seed-borne viral diseases.
(2)For beans to be eligible for a
phytosanitary certificate covering the bacterial diseases listed in subsection
(1) of this section the following provisions apply:
(a)Common bean must be free of the diseases
as determined by the department with a field inspection during the growing
season and by a windrow inspection. An appropriate seed health assay and
greenhouse test may be accepted in lieu of a windrow inspection at the
discretion of the department.
(b)
Pintos, red Mexicans, pinks, great northerns, small whites, navy beans, and
black turtle beans may be grown for an unlimited number of generations under
rill or sprinkler irrigation.
(c)Kidney beans, cranberry types, Taylor
horticultural, and Borlotto types may be grown for an unlimited number of
generations under rill irrigation or for one generation under rill irrigation
and, subsequently, for two generations under sprinkler irrigation. The fourth
and unlimited subsequent generations may be grown and inspected with the same
alternation of irrigation types.
(d)A field planted must be free of halo
blight the previous two years of planting.
(e) Seed fields must be 1,320 feet from an
incident of disease. The department recommends that equipment be disinfected
between fields.
(3)At
least two field inspections of beans are required for bacterial diseases listed
in subsection (1) of this section:
(a) Fields
not under sprinkler irrigation shall be inspected twice:
(i) The first inspection is to be conducted
by the department when plants are near the early pod stage.
(ii) The second inspection is to be conducted
by the department when the plants are in the windrow.
(b) Fields under sprinkler irrigation shall
be inspected three times:
(i) The first
inspection is to be conducted by the department when plants are near the full
bloom stage. An appropriate seed health assay for halo blight may be accepted
in lieu of the first growing season inspection.
(ii) The second inspection is to be conducted
by the department when plants are near the full pod stage.
(iii) The third inspection is to be conducted
by the department when the plants are in the windrow.
(4) All bean seed entered into the
phytosanitary inspection program must comply with the bean seed quarantine
rules. See chapter 16-301 WAC.
Statutory Authority:
RCW
15.49.005,
15.49.081,
15.49.310,
15.49.370(3) and
chapter
17.24 RCW. 00-24-077,
§ 16-301-235, filed 12/4/00, effective
1/4/01.