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Title: IS PHYTOPLASMA YET ANOTHER POTENTIAL PATHOGEN FOR PHASEOLUS VULGARIS?

Author
item Davis, Robert

Submitted to: Bean Improvement Cooperative Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/3/1999
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Leguminous plants have not escaped the evolution of biodiversity in phytoplasmas. The development of PCR-based assays have revealed that these minute cell wall-less prokaryotes, formerly called mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs), infect diseased legumes in Africa, Australia, Asia, Puerto Rico, South America, and Florida. A witches' broom disease of P. vulgaris in South America has been attributed by others to phytoplasmal infection, but detailed knowledge of the phytoplasma and the disease is lacking.