news and research about Pierce's Disease

What is Pierce's Disease?

Pierce’s Disease is a bacterial infection, which is spread by bugs that feed on grapevines, particularly the "glassy winged sharpshooter." Grapevines that become infected with PD can quickly become sick and die.

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    Almeida, RPP
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May 1, 2008 Host colonization differences between citrus and coffee isolates of xylella fastidiosa in reciprocal inoculation Scientia agricola Prado, SD; Lopes, JRS; Demetrio, CGB; Borgatto, AF; Almeida, RPP;
June 1, 2008 Genetic structure and biology of xylella fastidiosa strains causing disease in citrus and coffee in brazil Applied and environmental microbiology Almeida, RPP; Nascimento, FE; Chau, J; Prado, SS; Tsai, CW; Lopes, SA; Lopes, JRS;
May 1, 2009 Context-dependent transmission of a generalist plant pathogen: host species and pathogen strain mediate insect vector competence Entomologia experimentalis et applicata Lopes, JRS; Almeida, RPP; Daugherty, Matthew;
Feb. 17, 2010 Estimating xylella fastidiosa transmission parameters: decoupling sharpshooter number and feeding period Entomologia experimentalis et applicata Daugherty, MP; Almeida, RPP;
Feb. 17, 2010 Temperature mediates vector transmission efficiency: inoculum supply and plant infection dynamics Annals of applied biology Daugherty, MP; Bosco, D; Almeida, RPP;
Feb. 17, 2010 Host structural carbohydrate induces vector transmission of a bacterial plant pathogen Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america Killiny, N; Almeida, RPP;
Feb. 17, 2010 Context-dependent transmission of a generalist plant pathogen: host species and pathogen strain mediate insect vector competence Entomologia experimentalis et applicata Lopes, JRS; Daugherty, MP; Almeida, RPP;
June 1, 2011 Background matching behaviour and pathogen acquisition: plant site preference does not predict the bacterial acquisition efficiency of vectors Arthropod-plant interactions Rashed, A; Killiny, N; Kwan, J; Almeida, RPP;
April 1, 2011 Spatial genetic structure of a vector-borne generalist pathogen Applied and environmental microbiology Coletta, HD; Bittleston, LS; Almeida, RPP;
Oct. 1, 2010 Strain origin drives virulence and persistence of xylella fastidiosa in alfalfa Plant pathology Lopes, JRS; Daugherty, MP; Almeida, RPP;
Oct. 1, 2010 Role of cyclic di-gmp in xylella fastidiosa biofilm formation, plant virulence, and insect transmission Molecular plant-microbe interactions Chatterjee, S; Killiny, N; Almeida, RPP; Lindow, Steven;
Sept. 1, 2010 Chitin utilization by the insect-transmitted bacterium xylella fastidiosa Applied and environmental microbiology Killiny, N; Prado, SS; Almeida, RPP;
July 1, 2010 Strain-specific alfalfa water stress induced by xylella fastidiosa European journal of plant pathology Daugherty, MP; Lopes, JRS; Almeida, RPP;
June 1, 2010 Vector within-host feeding preference mediates transmission of a heterogeneously distributed pathogen Ecological entomology Daugherty, MP; Lopes, J; Almeida, RPP;
Dec. 1, 2009 Host structural carbohydrate induces vector transmission of a bacterial plant pathogen Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america Killiny, N; Almeida, RPP;
Oct. 1, 2011 Grapevine genotype susceptibility to xylella fastidiosa does not predict vector transmission success Environmental entomology Rashed, A; Daugherty, MP; Almeida, RPP;
Feb. 1, 2012 Disrupting the transmission of a vector-borne plant pathogen Applied and environmental microbiology Killiny, N; Rashed, A; Almeida, RPP;
Dec. 1, 2011 Gene regulation mediates host specificity of a bacterial pathogen Environmental microbiology reports Killiny, N; Almeida, RPP;
Oct. 1, 2011 Vector preference for hosts differing in infection status: sharpshooter movement and xylella fastidiosa transmission Ecological entomology Daugherty, MP; Rashed, A; Almeida, RPP; Perring, TM;