Plant Pathology (2006) 55, p. 821 (Jones et al.)

P. Jones and Y. Arocha (2006)
A natural infection of Hebe is associated with an isolate of `Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris' causing a yellowing and little-leaf disease in the UK
Plant Pathology 55 (6), 821-821
Abstract: In 2005 symptoms of yellowing and little leaf were observed on a bush of hebe, Veronica scutellata, in the U.K. DNA was extracted from symptomatic leaves and analyzed. The highest sequence similarity (99.7%) was with a barley deformation phytoplasma from Lithuania, an isolate of Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (aster yellows). We believe this is both the first record of a phytoplasma infecting hebe and the first definitive record of Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris in the UK.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Phytoplasma asteris	Veronica (crop)	United Kingdom