“…This disease was first reported in South Carolina and Virginia in the United States in 1918 (Brown, 1918). Since 1990s, substantial outbreaks of BLS have been reported with increasing frequency in some of the major lettuce growing regions, such as California (Barak et al, 2001;Bull et al, 2007;Bull and Koike, 2005;Umesh et al, 1996), Florida (Lu and Raid, 2013;Pernezny et al, 1995), and Ohio (Sahin and Miller, 1997). Currently, there are no chemicals available to control the disease.…”