On November 12 the Conselleria de Agricultura, Medio Ambiente, Cambio Climático y Desarrollo Rural reported 201 new positive results for Xylella fastidiosa in the province of Alicante, Spain. Most of them, 193, correspond to almond trees, 4 to Polygala myrtifolia, 2 to Helychrysum italicum, 1 to Phagnalon saxatile and 1 to Prunus armeniaca.
All the new positives are within the currently declared Demarcated Area, and all the results obtained up to now indicate that positives belong to the same multiplex subspecies and ST6. For the first time in Europe, X. fastidiosa has been detected in the plant P. armeniaca. Samples came from an isolated apricot tree located close to plots with infected almond trees, in the municipality of Benissa. Also in this case, MLST analysis confirms that is the subspecies multiplex and the ST6.
Moreover, X. fastidiosa has been detected in 36 new specimens of Philaenus spumarius and 10 of Neophilaenus campestris, captured in the surroundings of infected almond tree plots.
The official note of the Generalitat Valenciana with all the data is available in Spanish and Valencian here.