1Department of Agricultural Sciences (DipSA), Plant Pathology, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
*Corresponding author e-mail: Assunta Bertaccini (assunta.bertaccini@unibo.it)
Online published on 2 January, 2015.
The setting of the Q-Bank database freely available on line for quarantine phytoplasmas and also for general phytoplasma identification was 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 and also by providing infected samples that are verified by quality standard for correct phytoplasma identification.
Collection, phytoplasmas, reference strains, network, sequencing, molecular identification
