Author: Rodrigo Almeida

We have neglected our News posts a bit, so here is a summary of some of the recent work published by the community that may be of interested (short list with links to pubmed). . X. fastidiosa populations in South America frequently

Here is the link to this Xylella fastidiosa conference in Spain – LINK From their site: A major scientific conference on European research into Xylella fastidiosa is to be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from 13-15 November 2017. The conference

Two peer-reviewed articles that have been recently made available in Plant Pathology demonstrate that X. fastidiosa diversity in Europe, both in nature as well as imported plant material, continues to expand. Five sequence types (i.e. genetic groups) were identified in coffee shipments

There is still little information available from the recently detected X. fastidiosa outbreak at the Baleares, Spain. A recent news article in Spanish covers what is currently known (LINK). Note that Blanca Landa (CSIC) suggests X. fastidiosa may have been associated with

As it was been widely reported, Xylella fastidiosa has been detected on the islands of Majorca and Ibiza in Spain. Although details are still not available, there is one point of concern we would like to raise based on an

Xylella fastidiosa was first detected in Mallorca last year. Follow up surveillance efforts have now also found it in Ibiza. At least two different introductions are assumed, given that the report indicates that both subspecies fastidiosa and multiplex were found

The French government (Ministère de l’agriculture, de l’agroalimentaire et de la forêt) just released a plan (public release) that describes steps required to eradicate novel outbreaks of Xylella fastidiosa (download PDF). It is a good resource/document to read and consider

There were many interesting talks in the 2016 Pierce’s Disease Research Symposium. Here are a few highlights, in case you don’t want to go through the 290-page book, with respective pages in the proceedings indicated: . grapevines respond to X. fastidiosa LPS