Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Departamento de Sanidad Vegetal, La Pintana, Santiago, Chile
*Corresponding author e-mail: Nicola Fiore (nfiore@uchile.cl)
Online published on 23 May, 2023.
The diseases associated to phytoplasmas in South America are responsible of serious economic losses. The 16SrIII-J phytoplasmas have a wide host range and are transmitted by numerous leafhopper species and seems thus the most critical.
‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’, ‘Ca. P. fraxini’, ‘Ca. P. hispanicum’, ‘Ca. P. meliae’, ‘Ca. P. pyri’