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