Lluisa Vilaplana

Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! For more than 5 years, since the first reports of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, the world has witnessed its devastating effects. Immense efforts were put to apply life-saving solutions that aided in reducing the pandemic economic and social impact.

1 Introduction Bacterial wilt (BW) is a major soil-borne bacterial plant disease caused by Ralstonia solanacearum (RS), an aerobic, non-spore-forming, Gram-negative species (phylum Pseudomonadota, class Betaproteobacteria) (Yabuuchi et al., 1995), one of the top ten bacterial plant pathogens worldwide (Mansfield et al., 2012).

Open AccessArticle by Anna Aviñó 1,2, Carlos Cuestas-Ayllón 2,3, Manuel Gutiérrez-Capitán 4, Lluisa Vilaplana 1,2, Valeria Grazu 2,3, Véronique Noé 5,6, Eva Balada 1,2, Antonio Baldi 4, Alex J. Félix 5, Eva Aubets 5, Simonas Valiuska 5,6, Arnau Domínguez 1,2, Raimundo Gargallo 7, Ramon Eritja 1,2,*, M.−Pilar Marco 1,2, César Fernández-Sánchez 2,4, Jesús Martínez de la Fuente 2,3 and Carlos J.