XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA: ITS BIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, CONTROL AND RISKS

The bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, a xylem-inhabiting, vector-transmitted, Gram-negative, very slow growing bacterium, was cultured and properly described for the first time in 1987 as the cause of Pierce’s disease of grapevine and a number of so-called leaf scorch diseases in Prunus spp.