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Category A now contains 463 host plant species.
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e0“The overall number of Xylella spp. host plants determined with at least two different detection methods or positive with one method (between sequencing and pure culture isolation (category A)), reaches now 463 plant species, 210 genera and 71 families.”
Title
Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2024
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA); Vincenzo Cavalieri; Elisa Fasanelli; et al. EFSA Journal 2025. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9563
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Method / resource Fourteen new host plants were identified and added to the Xylella database.
- Observation The newly recorded plant hosts were naturally infected in the United States, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
- Method / resource No additional data were retrieved for X. taiwanensis.
- Method / resource No additional multilocus sequence types were identified worldwide.
- Method / resource New information on tolerant or resistant plant responses to X. fastidiosa was added to the database.
- Method / resource Category A now contains 210 host plant genera.
- Method / resource Category A now contains 71 host plant families.
- Method / resource Category E includes 727 host plant species regardless of detection method.
- Method / resource Category E includes 319 host plant genera.
- Method / resource Category E includes 91 host plant families.