Phytopathogenic Mollicutes
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1

First evidence of 16SrII-D phytoplasmas association with Luffa cylindrica phyllody from India

  • Author:
  • Govind Pratap Rao1,*, Smriti Mall2, Ajay Kumar Tiwari3, Surabhi Mitra4, Sushil Kumar Singh5
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 101 to 102

1Institute of Agricultural and Natural Science, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur-273009, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Department of Botany, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur-273009, Uttar Pradesh, India

3UPCSR-Sugarcane Research and Seed Multiplication Centre, Gola, Kheri, 262802, Uttar Pradesh, India

4Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, 211007, Uttar Pradesh, India

5Department of Plant Pathology, Acharya Narendra Dev University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, 224229, Uttar Pradesh, India

*Corresponding author e-mail: Govind Pratap Rao (gprao_gor@rediffmail.com)

Online published on 23 May, 2023.

Abstract

The phytoplasma detected in smooth loofah gourd species (Luffa cylindrica) showing phyllody in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India was characterized by molecular analyses. Phylogeny and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences of nested PCR products identified this phytoplasma as member of the 16SrII-D subgroup, ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma australasia’. This is the first molecular characterization of a 16SrII-D phytoplasma infecting smoot loofah gourd in world.

Keywords

Cucumber phyllody, “turai”, Phytoplasma, ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma australasia’