Molecular and biological properties of phytoplasmas

S Namba - Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Phytoplasmas, a large group of plant-pathogenic, phloem-inhabiting bacteria were
discovered by Japanese scientists in 1967. They are transmitted from plant to plant by …

Coconut lethal yellowing diseases: a phytoplasma threat to palms of global economic and social significance

GM Gurr, AC Johnson, GJ Ash, BAL Wilson… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The recent discovery of Bogia coconut syndrome in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the first
report of a lethal yellowing disease (LYD) in Oceania. Numerous outbreaks of LYDs of …

[HTML][HTML] Phytoplasmas and phytoplasma diseases: a severe threat to agriculture

A Bertaccini, B Duduk, S Paltrinieri… - American Journal of Plant …, 2014 - scirp.org
Several economically relevant phytoplasma-associated diseases are described together
with an update of phytoplasma taxonomy and major biological and molecular features of …

Phytoplasmas: an update

A Bertaccini, IM Lee - … : Plant pathogenic bacteria-I: Characterisation and …, 2018 - Springer
A summary of the research carried out on phytoplasma-associated diseases 50 years after
their discovery is presented. The great majority of this research was devoted to classification …

Molecular biology and pathogenicity of phytoplasmas

C Marcone - Annals of applied Biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplasmas are a large group of plant‐pathogenic wall‐less, non‐helical, bacteria
associated with diseases, collectively referred to as yellows diseases, in more than a …

Species boundaries and molecular markers for the classification of 16SrI phytoplasmas inferred by genome analysis

ST Cho, HJ Kung, W Huang, SA Hogenhout… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Phytoplasmas are plant-pathogenic bacteria that impact agriculture worldwide. The
commonly adopted classification system for phytoplasmas is based on the restriction …

Phytoplasma classification: Taxonomy based on 16S ribosomal gene, is it enough?

B Duduk, A Bertaccini - Phytopathogenic Mollicutes, 2011 - indianjournals.com
The discovery in 1967, of a new group of plant pathogens related to bacteria led to the
finding of pleomorphic, wall-less prokaryotes in the phloem of many plant species affected …

'Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium' associated with almond witches'-broom disease: from draft genome to genetic diversity among strain populations

F Quaglino, M Kube, M Jawhari, Y Abou-Jawdah… - BMC microbiology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Almond witches'-broom (AlmWB), a devastating disease of almond,
peach and nectarine in Lebanon, is associated with 'Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium' …

Multilocus sequence ty** of diverse phytoplasmas using hybridization probe-based sequence capture provides high resolution strain differentiation

K Pusz-Bochenska, E Perez-Lopez, TJ Wist… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Phytoplasmas are insect-vectored, difficult-to-culture bacterial pathogens that infect a wide
variety of crop and non-crop plants, and are associated with diseases that can lead to …

Molecular diagnostic tools for detection and differentiation of phytoplasmas based on chaperonin-60 reveal differences in host plant infection patterns

TJ Dumonceaux, M Green, C Hammond, E Perez… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Phytoplasmas ('Candidatus Phytoplasma'spp.) are insect-vectored bacteria that infect a wide
variety of plants, including many agriculturally important species. The infections can cause …