| transmission efficiency of xylella fastidiosa by sharpshooters (hemiptera: cicadellidae) in coffee and citrus. | xylella fastidiosa (wells, raju, hung, weisburg, mandelco-paul, and brenner) is a bacterial pathogen transmitted by several sharpshooters in two tribes of cicadellinae (proconiini and cicadellini). here, we compared the transmission efficiency of x. fastidiosa in coffee (coffea arabica l.) and citrus [citrus sinensis (l.) osbeck] by cicadellini [bucephalogonia xanthophis (berg) and dilobopterus costalimai young] and proconiini [homalodisca ignorata melichar and oncometopia facialis (signoret)] s ... | 2008 | 18767717 |