Identification of potential vectors of the coconut lethal disease phytoplasma

Plant Pathology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 355-361

  Mpunami, A ^a   Tymon, A ^b   Jones, P ^b   Dickinson, M J ^c  

^a Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute   (Tanzania)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coconut; Diastrombus mkurangai; LD phytoplasmas; Meenoplus spp.; PCR products; Vectors

Indexed keywords

COCONUT; DISEASE CARRIER; LETHAL DISEASE; PHYTOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL RNA; TANZANIA;

DISEASE VECTOR; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PHYTOPLASMA;

TANZANIA;

DIASTROMBUS MKURANGAI; MEENOPLUS;

EID: 0034046139     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.2000.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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