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Rapid and Specific Detection Methods for Plant Mycoplasmas

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Mycoplasma Diseases of Crops

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Mycoplasmas (class, Mollicutes; order, Mycoplasmatales) are considered to be causal agents of yellows diseases of plants, formerly thought to be of viral origin because of close resemblance in symptomatology and mode of transmission. In plant pathology, however, since the initial discovery by Doi et al., (1967), the term “mycoplasma-like organisms” (MLO) has been in use to describe a group of prokaryotic microorganisms that morphologically resemble members of the Mycoplasmatales but lack proof of Koch’s postulates. Most attempts to isolate and culture these microorganisms, except those belonging to the genus Spiroplasma (Whitcomb, 1980), have been unsuccessful.

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Hiruki, C. (1988). Rapid and Specific Detection Methods for Plant Mycoplasmas. In: Maramorosch, K., Raychaudhuri, S.P. (eds) Mycoplasma Diseases of Crops. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3808-9_4

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