Brazil is the world's largest producer of sugarcane, and its main products are sugar, ethanol and biomass. With the high demand for its products, there was a need to plant it all year round. Thus sugarcane pineapple disease, ...

Xylella fastidiosa (XF) is a bacterium capable of colonizing a large number of plants, but is mainly known to cause disease in economically important crops such as citrus, grapevines, coffee and more recently olive trees. ...

Ratoon stunt disease (Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli), is currently considered the main disease of sugarcane in all major producing countries. Because propagating materials is the sole source of primary inoculum, the use of ...