First record of a wilt disease of banana plants associated with phytoplasmas in Solomon Islands
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Davis, R.I.
Henderson, J.
Jones, L.M.
McTaggart, Alistair R.
O'Dwyer, Cecilia
Tsatsia, F.
Fanai, C.
Rossel, J.B.
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Springer
Abstract
Phytoplasmas were detected by nested and real
time PCR from wilted cooking banana plants in Solomon
Islands close to the border with Papua New Guinea (PNG).
These phytoplasmas and two similar phytoplasmas found
adjacent in PNG formed a group from the Solomon Island
archipelago indistinguishable from each other by sequence
analysis. These and similar phytoplasmas from the island of
New Guinea were most closely related to phytoplasmas in
the16SrXXII-A group.
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Phytoplasma, Musa sp, Wilt disease, Solomon Islands
Sustainable Development Goals
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Davis, RI, Henderson, J, Jones, LM, McTaggart, AR, O’Dwyer, C, Tsatsia, F, Fanai, C, Rossel, JB 2015, 'First record of a wilt disease of banana plants associated with phytoplasmas in Solomon Islands', Australasian Plant Disease Notes, vol. 10, no.14, pp. 1-6.