Detection of Xylella fastidiosa in citrus plants and insect vectors. Chelex 100 resin matrix was successfully standardized allowing a fast DNA extraction of X. fastidiosa. An amplicon of 500 bp wa...

Eight new species of the agriculturally important sharpshooter genus Acrogonia Stal, 1869 are described and illustrated from Brazil (one of them also recorded from Peru): A. amazonensis sp. nov. (s...

Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) are pests of many temperate crops, including grapevines (Vitis species). Uncontrolled populations can induce direct and indirect damage to crops due to feeding...

The structure of the. egg and embryonic developmental stages of glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (Hemiptera; Cicadellidae), an important vector of Xylella fastidiosa are...

A quick, simple and efficient procedure for detecting Xylella fastidiosa in potential insect vectors is described. The procedure employs a commercially available DNeasy tissue kit for the extractio...

The liquid excretion and survival of the sharpshooters Dilobopterus costalimai Young and Oncometopia facialis (Signoret), vectors of Xylella fastidiosa in citrus, were measured on various host plan...

The intensification of agriculture drives many ecological and environmental consequences including impacts on crop pest populations and communities. These changes are manifested at multiple scales ...

Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterial plant pathogen that causes many plant diseases, including Pierce's disease of grapevines. Sharpshooter leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) vectors t...

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...

Hemipteran insects are devastating pests of crops due to their wide host range, rapid reproduction, and ability to transmit numerous plant-infecting pathogens as vectors. While the field of plant-v...