Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy
*Corresponding author e-mail: Assunta Bertaccini (assunta.bertaccini@unibo.it)
Online published on 23 May, 2023.
The use of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ as provisional taxon is helping both epidemiological studies and quarantine rules settling. A focused search in database evidences discrepancies and problems for strains enclosed in ‘Ca. P. aurantifolia’ and ‘Ca. P. australasia’ that share very often the same geographic distribution in Asian and Australian countries. An improved differentiation based on multigene approach could be useful to a more clear distiction of these phytoplasma strains.
Phytoplasmas, Plant disease, Taxon, Phylogeny, 16S ribosomal gene, Sequencing
