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AUTHOR
Denis Clair
Epidémiologie moléculaire et diversité des phytoplasmes du groupe 16SrV présents dans les compartiments viticoles et sauvages en Europe
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Comparison of prevalence, geographical distribution and biological properties of two flavescence dorée phytoplasma strains
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Improved detection of flavescence dorée and related phytoplasma in the elm yellows group in difficult material, with specific PCR primers that amplify a variable non ribosomal DNA fragment
Molecular-based methods are sometimes not sensitive enough to detect low-titre phytoplasmas in woody hosts. In order to enable the reliable routine diagnosis of Grapevine Yellows in dormant grapevine material, INRA-Dijon constructed new FD9 primers which, used in one step-PCR, proved very effective for the detection of phytoplasmas in symptomatic grapevine and elm. Used in nested-PCR assays, they provided an excellent signal from phloem chips or whole tissues taken from either canes or roots of dormant plants. Their restriction patterns were shown to be as informative as those from the original FD9 product. The new primers will help in the development of sanitary certification protocols and…
Insect Vectors (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) and Pathogens Associated with the Disease Syndrome “Basses Richesses” of Sugar Beet in France
International audience; The syndrome “basses richesses” (SBR) is a disease of sugar beet in eastern France associated with two phloem-restricted, nonculturable plant pathogens: a stolbur phytoplasma and a γ-3 proteobacterium, here called SBR bacterium. Three planthopper (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) species were found to live near and within sugar beet fields in eastern France: Cixius wagneri, Hyalesthes obsoletus, and Pentastiridius leporinus. The role of these planthoppers in spreading the two pathogens to sugar beet was studied. Based on its abundance and high frequency of infection with the SBR bacterium, P. leporinus was considered to be the economic vector of SBR disease. C. wagneri, the prim…
A multiplex nested-PCR assay for sensitive and simultaneous detection and direct identification of phytoplasma in the Elm yellows group and Stolbur group and its use in survey of grapevine yellows in France
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