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Grape Agro-ecosystem Analysis-Glassy winged sharpshooter

The invasiveness of the polyphagous glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar), GWSS) using the PBDM approach. GWSS is indigenous to the southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico, and extended its range into California USA in 1989. GWSS is a vector of the pathogenic bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al. 1987), which causes Pierce’s disease (PD) in … Continue reading Grape Agro-ecosystem Analysis-Glassy winged sharpshooter