Phytoplasmas are among the most recently discovered plant pathogens. They are wall-less prokaryotes restricted to phloem tissue, associated with diseases affecting several hundred plant species. The impact of phytoplasma diseases on agriculture is impressive and, at the present day, no effective curative strategy has been developed. The availability of rapid and sensitive techniques for phytoplasma detection as well as the possibility to study their relationship with the host plants is a prerequisite for the management of phytoplasma-associated diseases.
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Pagliari, L., & Musetti, R. (2019). Phytoplasmas: An introduction. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1875, pp. 1–6). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8837-2_1
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