1Department of Integrative Infection Biology Crops-Livestock, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
2Department of Agricultural Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
3Julius Kuhn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture, Dossenheim, Germany
4Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Protection, Belgrade-Zemun, Serbia
*Corresponding author e-mail: Jan Werner Bohm (jan.boehm@uni-hohenheim.de)
Online published on 23 May, 2023.
The elm yellows phytoplasma group include phytopathogenic strains associated with important insect vector-borne diseases in grapevine, alder, elm, Chinese jujube and Rubus spp. such as raspberry and blackberry. The Rubus stunt disease is associated with the presence of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma rubi’. In contrast to other 16SrV phytoplasma taxa “flavescence dorée” and ‘Ca. P. ziziphi’, no genome sequence of this phytoplasma is available. The complete genome of ‘Ca. P. rubi’ strain RS enabled a comprehensive analysis of the derived protein content. First analyses revealed a group-specific 16SrV metabolism as well as a diversified secretome that includes two conserved effector proteins.
16SrV, Rubus, Complete genome, Effector proteins
