Phytopathogenic Mollicutes

SCOPUS
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

‘Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris’ host species in Costa Rica

  • Author:
  • William Villalobos1,, Teresita Coto-Morales1, Izayana Sandoval-Carvajal1, Laura Garita1, Mauricio Montero-Astúa1,2, Lisela Moreira1,2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 21 to 22

1Centro de Investigación en Biología Celular y Molecular (CIBCM), Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), San José, Costa Rica

2Escuela de Agronomía, UCR, San José, Costa Rica

*Corresponding author e-mail: William Villalobos (williamvillalobosm@gmail.com)

Online published on 25 July, 2019.

Abstract

In Costa Rica a growing number of plants wild species and cultivated crops during the last 18 years have been detected harboring phytoplasmas. This report resumes the most common phytoplasmas detected in Costa Rica, where natural infections by these bacteria in 30 plant species belonging to 15 botanical families resulted to be associated with the presence of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris’-related strains (aster yellows).

Keywords

Aster yellows, witches’ broom; little leaf disease, yellows