1Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, DipSA, Plant Pathology, Viale Fanin 42, Bologna, 40127, Italy
2Aarhus University, Department of Integrated Pest Management, 4200, Slagelse, Denmark
*Corresponding author e-mail: assunta.bertaccini@unibo.it
Online published on 24 July, 2014.
The setting of the Q-Bank database free available on line for quarantine phytoplasma and also for general phytoplasma identification is described. The tool was developed in the frame of the EU-FP7 project Qbol and is linked with a new project Q-collect in order to made widely available the identification of relevant plant pests by nucleic acid sequence comparison of their barcodes.
Phytoplasma identification, DNA barcoding, tuf gene, 16Sr DNA
