Multilocus Genotyping of 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani' Associated with Rubbery Taproot Disease of Sugar Beet in the Pannonian Plain.

ABSTRACT: Rubbery taproot disease of sugar beet (RTD), associated with 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani', appeared in 2020 on an epidemic scale in northern Serbia and southern Slovakia, situated at opposite edges of the Pannonian Plain. In the affected locations where the disease was assessed, symptomatic sugar beets were analysed for phytoplasma infection. Additionally, multilocus sequence analyses of 'Ca. P. solani' strains on epidemiologically informative marker genes (tuf, stamp and vmp1) were performed. Symptomatic sugar beets from other countries of the Pannonian Plain (Croatia, Hungary and Austria), one sample from Germany, and red beets from Serbia were included in the analyses. 'Ca. P. solani' was detected in sugar beet in all assessed countries, as well as in red beet. Molecular analyses rev

SUBMITTER: Curcic Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8470437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature