- transmission.
Phytoplasmas were
discovered in 1967 by ****anese
scientists who
termed them mycoplasma-like organisms.
Since their discovery,
phytoplasmas have resisted...
-
caused by pathogens.
Diseases with
symptoms of witches' broom,
caused by
phytoplasmas or basidiomycetes, are
economically important in a
number of crop plants...
-
phytoplasma is
commonly called the X-disease phytoplasma. Like all
phytoplasmas,
Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni infects both
plants and insects.
Potential plant hosts...
- how
exactly the
Phytoplasma enters the tree and how it
spreads but
insect vectors are suspected. This is due to the fact that
Phytoplasmas are
often spread...
- and
tropical regions. Some are
pests or
vectors of
plant viruses and
phytoplasmas. The
family is
distributed all over the world, and
constitutes the second-largest...
- fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, viroids, virus-like organisms,
phytoplasmas, protozoa,
nematodes and
parasitic plants. Not
included are ectoparasites...
- 'Candidatus
Phytoplasma sacchari,
which is one of the most
destructive pathogens of
sugarcane (Saccharum
officinarum L.). In India, SCGS
phytoplasmas are spreading...
- quadrilineatus, a phloem-feeding
insect of the
order Hemiptera.[citation needed]
Phytoplasmas are
small (0.5-1 μm in diameter)
prokaryotes that
reproduce by division...
-
pathology as an
experimental host for
phytoplasmas. This is
because it is easy to
infect with a
large majority of
phytoplasmas, and also
often has very distinctive...
- symptoms. The pathogen,
sandal spike phytoplasma, was
first detected by
electron microscopy in 1969.
Phytoplasmas are
pleomorphic and
fragile organisms...
