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Abundance and Consumption Rate of Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) on Peaches and Plums
Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar), the glassy-winged sharpshooter, is a primary vector of phony peach and plum leaf scald diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. A survey of H. vitripenni...
A New Online Resource to Monitor New or Emerging Plant Pests: MEDISYS Media Monitoring and the Case of Xylella fastidiosa
The European Food Safety Authority has established a horizon scanning exercise for plant pests by automated monitoring of open-source media. The news sources are screened using the publicly accessi...
Anticipating and understanding new Xylella fastidiosa epidemics across European landscapes; insights from remote sensing and network analysis
Europe’s major X. fastidiosa outbreaks have progressed steadily in the past years as data on the bacterial strains causing them, and on the host range and vectors of the pathogen in various regions...
A survey of potential insect vectors of the plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in three regions of Spain
The emergence of a rapid-spreading olive disease associated with Xylella fastidiosa in southern Italy represents a high risk to susceptible crops in other countries of the Mediterranean basin, if i...
A Survey of Sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Virginia Vineyards, a Region of Expanding Concern for Pierce's Disease
A survey was conducted during the 2006 and 2007 growing seasons to record the presence of sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) vectors of Pierce's disease in Vitis vinifera L. growing regions of...
Biodiversity and ecology of potential vectors (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorryncha) of Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. in coffee plants of Puerto Rico
Xylella fastidiosa(Xf) is a xylem-limited bacterium that is the causal agent of coffee leaf scorch (CLS) in Central America. The purpose of this research was to survey potential vectors of Xf in pl...
Cicadomorpha Insects Associated With Bacterial Leaf Scorch Infected Oak in Central New Jersey
Potential insect vectors for transmission of oak leaf scorch caused by Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al., in pin and red oaks in New Jersey were surveyed by placing yellow sticky card traps in tree c...
First detection of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. multiplex DNA in Tuscany (Italy)
During the execution of the early detection surveillance program, carried out by the Regional Phytosanitary Service and the University of Florence, the DNA of the bacterium was detected in early Oc...
Presence of Cicadomorpha in olive orchards of Greece with special reference to Xylella fastidiosa vectors
Insects of the infraorder Cicadomorpha cause serious economic impact on agriculture because of pathogens' transmission. The vector-borne bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which is associated with olive...
Spatial Bayesian Modeling Applied to the Surveys ofXylella fastidiosain Alicante (Spain) and Apulia (Italy)
The plant-pathogenic bacteriumXylella fastidiosawas first reported in Europe in 2013, in the province of Lecce, Italy, where extensive areas were affected by the olive quick decline syndrome, cau...
Spittlebugs as vectors of Xylella fastidiosa in olive orchards in Italy
The recent introduction of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe and its involvement in the Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS) in Apulia (Salento, Lecce district, South Italy) led us to investigate the bio...
Survey data of xylem-sap feeding Auchenorrhyncha
The recent outbreaks of the xylem-limited bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in Europe require the improvement of prevention measures and of integrated management strategies for the diseases caused by th...
