Progress on Understanding and Management of Xylella fastidiosa Infections
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 27555
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Interests: phytopathogenic bacteria; bacterial diseases; detection and identification; characterization of bacterial populations; resistance induction
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Interests: detection; host–plant interaction; taxonomy; field control strategies
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Dear Colleagues,
Xylella fastidiosa (XF) is a Gram-negative plant pathogenic bacteria with a broad range of crop, urban shade, and forest plant hosts. Symptoms caused by XF are not specific and, despite often being similar to those caused by water stress, may vary depending on the host plant–XF strain combination. Many hosts are symptomless; however, infection with some species causes rapid death, making this pathogen very difficult to manage. XF is a xylem-limited bacterium that is transmitted by xylem-sap-feeding insects. Since the beginning of the last century, it has been endemic to North, Central, and South America, where it causes, among other things, Pierce’s disease on grapevine and Citrus variegated chlorosis on Citrus spp.. It was recently introduced into southern Italy (the Apulia region), where it led to major damage to olive crops, and was also found in some European countries on several plant species.
Given the serious phytosanitary emergency that arose in the European Union during the last decade and despite the extensive study carried out, more effort has to be made to study several aspects of this dangerous bacterial pathogen. For the forthcoming Special Issue of Pathogens, we invite you to submit original research articles, reviews, and short notes describing advances in our understanding of biology, epidemiology, population genetics, interactions of different strains/subspecies with their hosts and vectors, molecular mechanisms, and genetic aspects of bacteria–host–vector interactions as well as in strategies for disease management, early detection and identification, and disease risk assessment.
Dr. Stefania Loreti
Dr. Marco Scortichini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- epidemiology
- host–plant interaction
- insect vectors
- detection
- field control
- disease risk assessment
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