Vector-borne plant diseases have significant ecological and economic impacts, affecting
farm profitability and forest composition throughout the world. Bacterial vector-borne …

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) increasingly threaten global food security and public
health. Despite technological breakthroughs, we are losing the battle with (re) emerging …

Certain obligate parasites induce complex and substantial phenotypic changes in their hosts
in ways that favor their transmission to other trophic levels. However, the mechanisms …

Within the 16SrII phytoplasma group, subgroups A–X have been classified based on
restriction fragment length polymorphism of their 16S rRNA gene, and two species have …

Among grapevine yellows, Bois noir (BN), associated with 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani',
represents the biggest threat in the main wine-growing areas worldwide, causing significant …

Simple Summary Phytoplasmas are non-cultivable organisms for which biological and
molecular characterization is a challenge. Despite the development of new sequencing …

Native to the Nearctic region, Scaphoideus titanus Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) has
become a major threat for grapevine production after being unintentionally introduced into …

Simple Summary Flavescence dorée is one of the most important diseases of grapevines. It
is associated with phytoplasmas, pathogenic bacteria transmitted from vine to vine by the …

The association between insect herbivores and vascular plants represents one of the
greatest success stories in terrestrial evolution. Specific mechanisms generating diversity in …

“Flavescence dorée”(FD)-related phytoplasmas are widespread in alder in Germany and
their transmission to grapevine represents a high risk for FD outbreaks when the primary …