* Soares MR, Carneiro RM, Dias-Arieira C (2022) Response of different crops and weeds to three biotypes of Meloidogyne graminicola: crop rotation and succession strategies for irrigated rice fields. Nematology 24(5), 589-597.
-------non-host in experiments (RF<0.3) (as Urochloa decumbens)
* Lopes SA, Marcussi S, Torres SCZ, Souza V, Fagan C, França SC, Fernandes NG, Lopes JRS (2003) Weeds as alternative hosts of the citrus, coffee, and plum strains of Xylella fastidiosa in Brazil. Plant Disease 87, 544-549.
------- as Brachiaria decumbens
* Howard FW (1989) Evaluation of six species of grasses as breeding hosts of Myndus crudus, a vector of lethal yellowing of palms. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society vol. XXV, 433-438.
------- Nymph host.
* Ramos Hernández E, Magaña Alejandro MA, Ortiz García CF, Oropeza Salín C, Lesher Gordillo JM, Sánchez Soto S (2018) The coconut pathosystem: weed hosts of nymphs of the American palm Cixiid Haplaxius crudus (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Journal of Natural History 52(5-6), .255-268.
-------- Nymph host.
* EFSA (2024) Update of the Xylella spp. host plant database – Systematic literature search up to 31 December 2023. EFSA Journal 22, e8898. https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.8898
------- As Brachiaria decumbens. Subspecies unknown.
