Blanca B. Landa

A hyperspectral phenotyping platform for studying plant responses to Xylella fastidiosa infection

The plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa is able to infect a wide range of hosts. Its long incubation period and frequent asymptomatic infections hinder early visual detection, allowing infected plants to remain undetected facilitating disease spread. This paper describes a hyperspectral imaging-based phenotyp...

Plant Health Research

Landscape and environmental drivers of plant health decline during an active invasion of Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. in Mediterranean agroecosystems

Invasive plant pathogens, such as Xylella fastidiosa ( Xf ), pose a major threat to global agricultural and natural ecosystems, yet their impacts are rarely assessed across agro–natural interfaces where plant diversity, landscape structure and environmental stress interact. Here, we examine how Xf infection, en...

A metabolic model based on a pangenome core reveals putative conserved biochemical features of the phytopathogen Xylella fastidiosa.

Xylella fastidiosa is a xylem-limited phytopathogenic bacterium responsible for severe diseases in many economically important crops. Despite its impact, its metabolism remains poorly characterized due to fastidious growth and the limited availability of defined culture media. Here, we reconstruct the first pangenome-b...