Global predictions for the risk of establishment of Pierce's disease of grapevines

The vector-borne bacterium Xylella fastidiosa is responsible for Pierce's disease (PD), a lethal grapevine disease that originated in the Americas. The international plant trade is expanding the geographic range of this pathogen, posing a new threat to viticulture worldwide. To assess the potential incidence of PD, we have built a dynamic epidemiological model based on the response of 36 grapevine varieties to the pathogen in inoculation assays and on the vectors' distribution when this information is available. Key temperature-driven epidemiological processes, such as PD symptom development and recovery, are mechanistically modelled. Integrating into the model high-resolution spatiotemporal climatic data from 1981 onward and different infectivity (R0) scenarios, we show how the main wine-producing areas thrive mostly in non-risk, transient, or epidemic-risk zones with potentially low growth rates in PD incidence. Epidemic-risk zones with moderate to high growth rates are currently marginal outside the US. However, a global expansion of epidemic-risk zones coupled with small increments in the disease growth rate is projected for 2050. Our study globally downscales the risk of PD establishment while highlighting the importance of considering climate variability, vector distribution, and an invasive criterion as factors to obtain better PD risk maps.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Giménez-Romero, Alex, Galván Fraile, Javier, Montesinos, Marina, Bauzà, Joan, Godefroid, Martín, Fereres, Alberto, Ramasco, José J., Matías, Manuel A., Moralejo, Eduardo
Other Authors:	Govern de les Illes Balears
Format:	artículo biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Nature 2022-12-20
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10261/305247 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012818 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85144252144
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