“…xyli ( Lxx ) (Davis, Gillaspie, Harris, & Lawson, ) and is an important disease globally because it is responsible for substantial crop yield losses (Comstock, ; Grisham, ; Li et al., ; Young et al., ). Infection affects not just the ratoon crop, but also impacts plant yields (Chen et al., ; Comstock, ; Steindl & Hughes, ; Zhang et al., , ).…”