When a Palearctic bacterium meets a Nearctic insect vector: Genetic and ecological insights into the emergence of the grapevine Flavescence dorée epidemics in Europe.

Flavescence dorée (FD) is a European quarantine grapevine disease transmitted by the Deltocephalinae leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus. Whereas this vector had been introduced from North America, the possible European origin of FD phytoplasma needed to be challenged and correlated with ecological and g...

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Main Authors: Sylvie Malembic-Maher, Delphine Desqué, Dima Khalil, Pascal Salar, Bernard Bergey, Jean-Luc Danet, Sybille Duret, Marie-Pierre Dubrana-Ourabah, Laure Beven, Ibolya Ember, Zoltan Acs, Michele Della Bartola, Alberto Materazzi, Luisa Filippin, Slobodan Krnjajic, Oliver Krstić, Ivo Toševski, Friederike Lang, Barbara Jarausch, Maria Kölber, Jelena Jović, Elisa Angelini, Nathalie Arricau-Bouvery, Michael Maixner, Xavier Foissac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-03-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007967