Xylella fastidiosa Dixon / almond
As of April 24, 2024, the Genome Portal cannot register new Globus users. If you already have an existing Globus account registered with us, you will be able to stage and download your data. We apologize for the inconvenience and will remove the message when this functionality is restored.
   
   
 

Photo: Electron Microscopy Laboratory,
U.C. Berkeley
Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al. 1987) is a gram-negative, fastidious, xylem-inhabiting bacterium. It causes serious diseases in grapevines (Pierce’s disease), almonds (Almond leaf scorch), alfalfas (Alfalfa dwarf), and oleanders (Oleander leaf scorch) in California and numerous other diseases in North and South America. An epidemic of oleander leaf scorch was first noticed in 1994 in southern California. It was found that the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata Say, as well as several other sharpshooters, could transmit X. fastidiosa from oleander to oleander. Description of almond, oleander, and other leaf scorch diseases caused by different strains of X. fastidiosa can be found at the following website: http://www.CNR.Berkeley.EDU/xylella/

 


Causative agent of almond leaf scorch.

Characteristic symptoms: leaf scorch followed by decreased productivity and eventually death (within 3 to 8 years after the onset of leaf symptoms).