Citrus huanglongbing (HLB) has become a major disease and limiting factor of production in
citrus areas that have become infected. The destruction to the affected citrus industries has …

Abstract Candidatus Liberibacter species are Gram‐negative bacteria that live as phloem‐
limited obligate parasites in plants, and are associated with several plant diseases. These …

The potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc)(Hemiptera: Triozidae), transmits the
pathogen “Candidatus liberibacter solanacearum”(Lso), the putative causal agent of zebra …

Citrus huanglongbing (HLB, or yellow shoot disease), affects by now the three major citrus-
producing areas in the world: China since at least the 1930s [from the north-central region of …

Liberibacter spp. form a Rhizobiaceae clade of phloem-limited pathogens of limited host
range. Two obligately parasitic species have been sequenced:'Candidatus Liberibacter …

Citrus surveys were conducted at high (> 700 m), medium (300-600 m) and low (< 200 m)
altitudes in Tanzania in 2014/15. Adults and nymphs of Trioza erytreae (del Guercio) were …

Most psyllid species, also known as jum** plant lice, are well known agricultural pests, in
part because many of them are vectors of devastating plant pathogens. This is the case for …

Zebra chip (ZC), a new and economically important disease of potato in the United States,
Mexico, Central America, and New Zealand, is caused by the bacterium “Candidatus …

A protocol for the specific detection and quantification of 'Candidatus Liberibacter
solanacearum'in carrot seeds using real‐time PCR was developed. The bacterium was …

A novel candidate species of the liberibacter genus,'Candidatus Liberibacter
brunswickensis'(CL br), was identified in the Australian eggplant psyllid, Acizzia solanicola …