'Candidatus Phytoplasma pini', a novel taxon from Pinus silvestris and Pinus halepensis

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 303-307

  Schneider, Bernd ^a   Torres, Ester ^b   Martín, María P ^c   Schröder, Manfred ^d   Behnke, Heinz Dietmar ^e   Seemüller, Erich ^a  

^a Inst fur Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau   (Germany)

^b Laboratori de Sanitat Vegetal   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d Landesanstalt F Pflanzenschutz   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; MICROSCOPY; NEW COMBINATION (TAXONOMY); NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOPLASMA; PHYTOPLASMA PINI; PINE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA; PINUS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA CASTANEAE; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA PINI; MOLLICUTES; PHYTOPLASMA; PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 13244265809     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63285-0     Document Type: Article

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