Witches' Broom of Rose: A New Outbreak in Several Central States. F. J. Crowe, Assistant Professor, Extension Plant Pathologist, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66506. Plant Dis. 67:544-546. Accepted for publication 28 December 1982. This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. The American Phytopathological Society, 1983. DOI: 10.1094/PD-67-544.

Witches' broom of rose, a killing graft- and mite-transmissible disease incited by an unidentified agent has increased rapidly in Kansas and Missouri during 1978–1982. The disease was also found in Arkansas and Oklahoma in 1982. Death of numerous cultivated rose hybrids has occurred in predominantly urban settings, but in rural areas, the disease is providing natural control of the noxious weed Rosa multiflora.