| initial genetic analysis of xylella fastidiosa in texas. | xylella fastidiosa is the causative agent of pierce's disease of grape. no published record of x. fastidiosa genetics in texas exists despite growing financial risk to the u.s. grape industry, a texas population of the glassy-winged sharpshooter insect vector (homalodisca vitripennis) now spreading in california, and evidence that the bacterium is ubiquitous to southern states. using sequences of conserved gyrb and mopb genes, we have established at least two strains in texas, grape strain and r ... | 2008 | 18172717 |