Phytoplasma genomics, from sequencing to comparative and functional genomics-what have we learnt?

Phytoplasmas: Genomes, Plant Hosts and Vectors

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-36

  Hogenhout, Saskia A ^a   Music, Martina Seruga ^b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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