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A Review of the Most Common and Economically Important Diseases That Undermine the Cultivation of Tomato Crop in the Mediterranean Basin

open access: yesAgronomy, 2021
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean region and throughout the world.
Stefano Panno   +7 more
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Molecular Characterization of the 16S rRNA Gene of Phytoplasmas Detected in Two Leafhopper Species Associated with Alfalfa Plants Infected with Witches' Broom in Oman

open access: yesPhytopathologia Mediterranea, 2003
Two leafhopper species, Austroagallia avicula and Empoasca sp., were consistently found in alfalfa fields infected with witches’ broom phytoplasma (OmanAlfWB) in the Al-Batinah, Dakhliya, North and South Sharqiya, Muscat, and Al-Bureimi regions of the ...
A.J. Khan   +6 more
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Molecular characterization of stolbur phytoplasmas in pepper and tomato from Bulgaria

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences, 2020
Tomato and pepper are the main vegetable crops cultivated in Bulgaria. Phytoplasma diseases, mainly stolbur, are important plant diseases for these crops in Bulgaria.
Sakalieva Dimitriyka
doaj   +1 more source

Plant Hormones in Phytoplasma Infected Plants

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2019
Phytoplasmas are bacterial plant pathogens that need a plant host and an insect vector for their spread and survival. In plants, the physiological responses that phytoplasmas trigger result in symptom development through effects on hormonal, nutritional,
Marina Dermastia
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Draft Genome Sequences of Two Phytoplasma Strains Associated with Sugarcane Grassy Shoot (SCGS) and Bermuda Grass White Leaf (BGWL) Diseases

open access: yesMolecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2020
We performed whole-genome sequencing of two phytoplasmas associated with sugarcane grassy shoot (SCGS) and Bermuda grass white leaf diseases. These are the first draft genomes of SCGS phytoplasma (strain SCGS) and ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma cynodontis ...
Kiran Kirdat   +7 more
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Real-time PCR applied to study on plant pathogens: potential applications in diagnosis - a review

open access: yesPlant Protection Science, 2015
Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) technique incorporates traditional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) efficiency with the production of a specific fluorescent signal, measuring the kinetics of the reaction in the early PCR phases and providing ...
Seyed Mahyar MIRMAJLESSI   +3 more
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Detection of Phytoplasmas Associated with Tomato Witches’ Broom and Big Bud Disease in Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2018
Symptoms of witches’ broom were observed on tomato plants in some fields in Aswan governorate, Egypt. Molecular investigation was done with phytoplasma-detection primer P1/P7 to amplify a fragment of the 16S rRNA gene plus spacer region and beginning of ...
S. Behiry
doaj   +1 more source

Pest categorisation of the non‐EU phytoplasmas of tuber‐forming Solanum spp.

open access: yesEFSA Journal, 2020
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of four phytoplasmas of tuber‐forming Solanum spp. known to occur only outside the EU or having a limited presence in the EU.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH)   +24 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phytoplasma: Phytopathogenic Mollicutes [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Microbiology, 2000
▪ Abstract  During the past decade, research has yielded new knowledge about the plant and insect host ranges, geographical distribution, and phylogenetic relationships of phytoplasmas, and a taxonomic system has emerged in which distinct phytoplasmas are named as separate “Candidatus phytoplasma species.” In large part, this progress has resulted ...
I M, Lee   +2 more
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The Effect of Viral Infection on the Growth of HoneySweet GM Plum Trees

open access: yesPlants
Plum pox virus (PPV) is one of the most destructive pathogens affecting stone fruit trees. It causes sharka disease and severe yield losses. The genetically modified plum cultivar ‘HoneySweet’ was developed to provide long-lasting resistance to PPV via ...
Petr Komínek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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