Phytoplasma: Ecology and genomic diversity

Phytopathology

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1359-1366

  Lee, Ing Ming ^a   Gundersen Rindal, Dawn E ^a   Bertaccini, Assunta ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mixed infections; Phytoplasma classification

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIVERSITY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PHYTOPLASMA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOMAL RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; VECTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; PHYTOPLASMA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031730249     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO.1998.88.12.1359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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