First Detection of <i>Xylella fastidiosa</i> Infecting Cherry (<i>Prunus avium</i>) and <i>Polygala myrtifolia</i> Plants, in Mallorca Island, Spain

Abstract

Xylella fastidiosa, a quarantine organism in the European Union (EU), causes diseases in a wide variety of plants such as almond, cherry, grape, citrus, elm, olive, and coffee trees and many ornamental plants. Since the detection of the bacterium in Italy (2013), where it is associated to a severe epidemic on olive trees, the pathogen has also been detected in France (2015) and Germany (2016) (EPPO 2016).