Phytopathogenic Mollicutes
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1-Suppl.

Transmission of 16SrIII-J phytoplasma by Paratanus exitiosus (Beamer) leafhopper in grapevine

  • Author:
  • Nicola Fiore1,, Valeria Longone2, Ximena González1, Alan Zamorano1, Ana María Pino1, Nicolás Quiroga1, Luca Picciau3, Alberto Alma3, Samanta Paltrinieri4, Nicoletta Contaldo4, Assunta Bertaccini4
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1University of Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Departamento de Sanidad Vegetal, Santiago, Chile

2Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Mendoza, Laboratorio de Fitopatología, Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

3Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), University of Turin, Grugliasco, Torino, Italy

4Department of Agricultural Sciences (DipSA), Plant Pathology, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

*Corresponding author e-mail: Nicola Fiore (nfiore@uchile.cl)

Online published on 2 January, 2015.

Abstract

The most common insect in Chilean phytoplasma-infected vineyards, belonging to the family Cicadellidae, is Paratanus exitiosus (Beamer). This leafhopper was proved to be able to transmit the 16SrIII-J phytoplasma to periwinkle plants. In the present work we demonstrate that P. exitiosus transmits the same phytoplasma to grapevine plants too.

Keywords

Auchenorrhyncha, transmission trials, grapevine yellows, tuf gene, 16S rRNA gene