Xylella: the greatest threat to Australian agriculture?

The realities of climate change and global world trade could be playing into the hands plant pathogens, none more so than Xylella fastidiosa. A relatively unimportant parochial pathogen 50 years ago, it has become one most important diseases in threatening crop production a wide variety tree crops all over globe. It moves within region insect vectors analogous to virus transmission but long-distance spread is through traded, often asymptomatic, plants. On arrival new many local sap feeding population are candidates for its this uncertainty coupled with potential range these as yet unidentified enlarge heaping on uncertainty. In addition plants, amenity trees species susceptible, infection fatal there no cure once occurred. Phytosanitation officers around globe deeply concerned about threat, likes which have never been seen previously.