'Candidatus Phytoplasma spartii', 'Candidatus Phytoplasma rhamni' and 'Candidatus Phytoplasma allocasuarinae', respectively associated with spartium witches'-broom, buckthorn witches'-broom and allocasuarina yellows diseases

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1025-1029

  Marcone, C ^a   Gibb, K S ^b   Streten, C ^b   Schneider, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Inst fur Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

APPLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HOST; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOPLASMA ALLOCASUARINAE; PHYTOPLASMA RHAMNI; PHYTOPLASMA SPARTII; PHYTOPLASMAL WITCHES BROOM; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHAMNUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPARTIUM;

ANGIOSPERMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA; PLANT DISEASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHAMNUS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPARTIUM;

ALLOCASUARINA; ALLOCASUARINA MUELLERIANA; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA RHAMNI; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA SPARTII; CYTISUS MULTIFLORUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PHYTOPLASMA; QUERCUS; RHAMNACEAE; RHAMNUS; RHAMNUS CATHARTICA; SPARTIUM; SPARTIUM JUNCEUM;

EID: 4344679483     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02838-0     Document Type: Article

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