ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Tackling Multi-Host Pathogenicity of Xylella by Assisted Immunity
This project addresses a complex problem in agriculture and will identify the process of multi-host pathogenicity. Emerging and re-emerging disease epidemics represent ongoing challenges to cultivation of crop plants, a global threat to food security and social stability. One of the recent disease epidemics is caused by Xylella fastidiosa, a generalist bacterium that infects a broad range of hosts, now spreading in Europe and threatening olive production. How pathogens colonize in multiple, genetically diverse species across families is poorly understood. X. fastidiosa colonizes xylem vessels, dead cells of the vasculature. I hypothesize that the more complex nature of multi-host pathogen…
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