Crop diseases caused by bacteria, including bacterial blights, wilts, cankers, rots and the gall and greening diseases spread by insect vectors. Belongs here: any crop disease whose recognized causal agent is a bacterium. Does not belong here: a crop disease caused by a fungus or a virus, each grouped under its own heading, even when a bacterial disease is itself spread by an insect vector that would otherwise sit under Insect and Mite Pests of Crops.
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1. Wikipedia: Plant pathogenic bacteria
WikipediaPlant pathogenic bacteria, Mollicutes/phytoplasma sectionQuote, Plant pathogenic bacteria, Mollicutes/phytoplasma section
are normally transmitted by leafhoppers (cicadellids) and psyllids, both sap-sucking insect vectors
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