Asian citrus psyllid adults inoculate huanglongbing bacterium more efficiently than nymphs when this bacterium is acquired by early instar nymphs.

The proportion of CLas-infected (qPCR positive) leaves, following a 4-day inoculation period (with 5 insects/leaf), was 2.5% (1/40 leaves) for nymphs and 36.3% (29/80 leaves) for adults, and this difference was highly significant ( P = 0.0001 in X 2 test).

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