| population structure of the bacterial pathogen xylella fastidiosa among street trees in washington d.c. | bacterial leaf scorch, associated with the bacterial pathogen xylella fastidiosa, is a widely established and problematic disease of landscape ornamentals in washington d.c. a multi-locus sequence typing analysis was performed using 10 housekeeping loci for x. fastidiosa strains in order to better understand the epidemiology of leaf scorch disease in this municipal environment. samples were collected from 7 different tree species located throughout the district of columbia, consisting of 101 sam ... | 2015 | 25815838 |