CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MYCOPLASMALIKE ORGANISM ASSOCIATED WITH WITCHES-BROOM DISEASE OF LIME AND PROPOSITION OF A CANDIDATUS TAXON FOR THEORGANISM, CANDIDATUS-PHYTOPLASMA-AURANTIFOLIA

Authors
ZREIK L CARLE P BOVE JM GARNIER M
Citation
L. Zreik et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MYCOPLASMALIKE ORGANISM ASSOCIATED WITH WITCHES-BROOM DISEASE OF LIME AND PROPOSITION OF A CANDIDATUS TAXON FOR THEORGANISM, CANDIDATUS-PHYTOPLASMA-AURANTIFOLIA, International journal of systematic bacteriology, 45(3), 1995, pp. 449-453
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
International journal of systematic bacteriology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00207713
Volume
45
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
449 - 453
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7713(1995)45:3<449:COTMOA>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Witches'-broom disease of small-fruited acid lime (WBDL) is a severe d isease caused by a mycoplasmalike organism (MLO) in the Sultanate of O man and the United Arab Emirates. The WBDL MLO was characterized by st udying its genome size, the sequences of its 16S ribosomal DNA and the 16S-23S ribosomal DNA spacer region, and hybridization profiles obtai ned by using WBDL MLO-specific probes. The size of the WBDL MLO genome is 720 kbp, Genomic similarities with the MLOs of sunhemp, sesame, an d alfalfa phyllodies were demonstrated, and we found that the WBDL MLO belongs to the sunhemp phyllody phylogenetic subgroup.