'Candidatus Phytoplasma cynodontis', the phytoplasma associated with Bermuda grass white leaf disease

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1077-1082

  Marcone, Carmine ^a   Schneider, Bernd ^b   Seemüller, Erich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b Inst fur Pflanzenschutz im Obstbau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA 16S; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BRACHIARIA; CANDIDA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATE (FRUIT); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE VECTOR; GRASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA CYNODONTIS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ACHOLEPLASMATACEAE; CYNODON; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPING;

BERMUDA GRASS WHITE LEAF PHYTOPLASMA; BRACHIARIA; CYNODON; CYNODON DACTYLON; PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA; PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 4344717089     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02837-0     Document Type: Article

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