A bacterial disease of grapevines (Xylella fastidiosa) spread by sharpshooter insects that blocks water conducting tissue, causing leaf scorch, fruit shrivel and vine death, typically within one to five years of infection. Native to the Americas, it devastated vineyards in Southern California in the nineteenth century and remains a limiting factor on winegrape production across the southern and southeastern United States, and related strains of the same bacterium threaten olive groves in Europe.
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Grape, Crops Pierce's disease (Xylella fastidiosa) is a major, often fatal disease of grapevine in the Americas.
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1. Pierce's Disease (Wikipedia)
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Xylella fastidiosa is an aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Xylella. It is a plant pathogen, that grows in the water transport tissues of plants and is transmitted exclusively by xylem sap-feeding insects such as sharpshooters and spittlebugs.
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A bacterial disease of grapevines (Xylella fastidiosa) spread by sharpshooter insects that blocks water conducting tissue, causing leaf scorch, fruit shrivel and vine death, typically within one to five years of infection.
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Xylella fastidiosa is an aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Xylella.
View the Source 2. European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO): EPPO Global Database: Xylella fastidiosa categorization
European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)Categorization table, RPPO/EUQuote, Categorization table, RPPO/EU
EPPO A2 list 1981
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