Over the past decade, the acquisition of CLas by ACP has been found to be a significant factor in pathogen transmission, and it was influenced by various factors such as temperature, citrus susceptibility, life stage, the sex of the psyllid, season, sampling method, time of acquisition and plant species, resulting in infection rates ranging from 1 to 90% (Inoue et al., 2009; Pelz-Stelinski et al., 2010; Perilla-Henao and Casteel, 2016; Wu et al., 2018). Here, NDUFAB1 is linked to infection.