Spiroplasma citri, A Plant Pathogenic Mollicute: Relationships with Its Two Hosts, the Plant and the Leafhopper Vector

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2003, Pages 483-500

  Bové, Joseph M ^a   Renaudin, Joël ^a   Saillard, Colette ^a   Foissac, Xavier ^a   Garnier, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Helicity; Pathogenicity; Phloem; Sugar metabolism; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW; SPIROPLASMA CITRI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMIPTERA; PLANTS; SPIROPLASMA CITRI;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICADELLIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MOLLICUTES; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA CITRI; SPIROPLASMATACEAE;

EID: 0141701190     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.41.052102.104034     Document Type: Review

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