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Phytoplasmas: A century of pioneering research

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Acknowledgments

I express my deepest gratitude to Profs. Kiyoshi Yora, Yoji Doi, and Tsuneo Tsuchizaki for their guidance and instruction in my research. I greatly thank Dr. Norio Nishimura, Mr. Satoshi Nakajima (Koibuchi College of Agriculture), Drs. Shosuke Kato, Setsuo Iwanami, Toshiki Shiomi, Izumi Matsuda, Tomio Usugi, Minoru Tanaka (National Agricultural Research Center), Mamoru Sato, Hiroshi Kawakita (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences), Joon-Tak Lee (Kyungpook National University), Hiroshi Oyaizu, Shigeru Hatano (The University of Tokyo), and the late Akira Shinkai for their collaboration and advice on my research. This research was completed through the contributions of the staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students in my laboratory, especially Drs. Kenro Oshima and Shigeyuki Kakizawa. I express my sincere thanks to the late Dr. Robert F. Whitcomb and to Drs. Shmuel Razin, Assunta Bertaccini, Alain Blanchard, Bruce Kirkpatrick, and Jacqueline Fletcher for their enthusiastic support and advice. I also thank members of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology, the Japanese Society of Mycoplasmology, and the Phytopathological Society of Japan. This research was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by the Program for Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Bioscience (PROBRAIN).

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This article is an abstract of the Presidential Address that was to be presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan in Fuchu.

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Namba, S. Phytoplasmas: A century of pioneering research. J Gen Plant Pathol 77, 345–349 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-011-0341-y

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