Geminivirus-related extrachromosomal DNAs of the X-clade phytoplasmas share high sequence similarity

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1453-1459

  Rekab, Djaouida ^a   Carraro, Luigi ^a   Schneider, Bernd ^b,d   Seemüller, Erich ^b   Chen, Jianchi ^c,e   Chang, Chung Jang ^c   Locci, Romano ^a   Firrao, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b Inst fur Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Italian clover phyllody; Leafhopper; Mollicute; Plant disease; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA;

ARTICLE; GEMINIVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ASTER; CLOVER PHYLLODY PHYTOPLASMA; GEMINIVIRIDAE; INSECTA; JUGLANS; PHYTOPLASMA; TRIFOLIUM; VACCINIUM;

EID: 0033046046     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-145-6-1453     Document Type: Article

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