Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) increasingly threaten global food security and public
health. Despite technological breakthroughs, we are losing the battle with (re) emerging …

The unusual genetic diversity of the Omicron strain has led to speculation about its origin.
The mathematical modelling platform developed for the Stockholm Paradigm (SP) indicates …

Native to the Nearctic region, Scaphoideus titanus Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) has
become a major threat for grapevine production after being unintentionally introduced into …

Simple Summary Phytoplasmas are non-cultivable organisms for which biological and
molecular characterization is a challenge. Despite the development of new sequencing …

The association between insect herbivores and vascular plants represents one of the
greatest success stories in terrestrial evolution. Specific mechanisms generating diversity in …

The flavescence dorée phytoplasma undergoes a propagative cycle in its insect vectors by
first interacting with the insect cell surfaces, primarily in the midgut lumen and subsequently …

Phytoplasmas are associated with important bacterial diseases, causing severe symptoms
in agricultural and ornamental crops.'Candidatus Phytoplasma rubi', associated with the …

To perform its propagative and circulative cycle into its insect vector, the flavescence dorée
phytoplasma invades different cell types. Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is used by a wide …

Metcalfa pruinosa (Say, 1830) was recorded for the first time in Poland, in the city of Warsaw.
This Nearctic species of the Flatidae family was introduced into Europe in the late 1970s and …

'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali'('Ca. P. mali') has only one major membrane protein, the
immunodominant membrane protein (Imp), which is regarded as being close to the ancestor …