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Living with genome instability: the adaptation of phytoplasmas to diverse environments of their insect and plant hosts.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 2006
Bai Xiaodong, Zhang Jianhua, Ewing Adam, Miller Sally A, Jancso Radek Agnes, Shevchenko Dmitriy V, Tsukerman Kiryl, Walunas Theresa, Lapidus Alla, Campbell John W, Hogenhout Saskia A
Abstract excerpt
Phytoplasmas ("Candidatus Phytoplasma," class Mollicutes) cause disease in hundreds of economically important plants and are obligately transmitted by sap-feeding insects of the order Hemiptera, mainly leafhoppers and psyllids. The 706,569-bp chromosome and four plasmids of aster yellows phytoplasma strain witches' broom (AY-WB) were sequenced and compared to the onion yellows phytoplasma strain M (OY-M) genome....
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