ISHS Acta Horticulturae 657: XIX International Symposium on Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Temperate Fruit Crops - Fruit Tree Diseases
FIRST DETECTION OF EUROPEAN STONE FRUIT YELLOWS PHYTOPLASMA (ESFY) IN BELGIUM |
| Authors: | T. Olivier, J. Kummert, S. Steyer |
| Keywords: | ESFY, Prunus domestica, phytoplasma, detection, Belgium |
| Abstract:
A 20 year old Prunus domestica tree growing in a private garden near Gembloux and showing early growth in spring and witches'-broom was suspected to be infected by phytoplasma. This has been confirmed by PCR using universal primers fU5/rU3. Further obtention of a specific amplification product with the group-specific primers pair ECA1/ECA2 identified this phytoplasma as ESFY (group 16Sr-X-b). To our knowledge, this is the first record of phytoplasmas in Prunus species in Belgium. | |
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