'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali', 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri' and Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum', the casual agents of apple proliferation, pear decline and European stone fruit yellows, respectively

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1217-1226

  Seemüller, Erich ^a   Schneider, Bernd ^a  

^a Inst fur Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEAR; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA MALI; PHYTOPLASMA PRUNORUM; PHYTOPLASMA PYRI; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STONE FRUIT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, RRNA; HEMIPTERA; MALUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PRUNUS; PYRUS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA MALI; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA PRUNORUM; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA PYRI; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PEACH YELLOW LEAFROLL PHYTOPLASMA; PHYTOPLASMA; PRUNUS PERSICA; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 4344679472     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02823-0     Document Type: Article

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