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First report of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma malaysianum’ associated with Elaeocarpus yellows of Elaeocarpus zollingeri

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“Elaeocarpus yellows” (ELY) is a widely reported phytoplasma disease of Elaeocarpus zollingeri trees in Japan. The phytoplasma associated with ELY (ELY phytoplasma) had not been identified at the species level because its 16S rRNA sequence had yet to be reported. Here, we report the results of a sequence analysis based on 16S rRNA and secA gene sequences, which showed that the ELY phytoplasma is related to ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma malaysianum’. To our knowledge, this is the first report showing the occurrence of ‘Ca. P. malaysianum’ outside Malaysia and the infection of E. zollingeri by the phytoplasma.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Yuuri Hirooka, Mr. Ken-ichi Suzuki, and Dr. Hiromichi Horie for assistance in sampling diseased plants. This work was partially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant nos. 16H04885 and 16K14643).

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  1. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Nozomu Iwabuchi, Akio Miyazaki, Hiroaki Koinuma, Yugo Kitazawa, Kensaku Maejima, Yasuyuki Yamaji & Shigetou Namba

  2. Faculty of Bioscience, Hosei University, Kajino-cho, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Ai Endo & Kenro Oshima

  3. Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan

    Norikazu Kameyama

  4. Institute of Socio-Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, 770-8502, Japan

    Masaya Satoh

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Iwabuchi, N., Endo, A., Kameyama, N. et al. First report of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma malaysianum’ associated with Elaeocarpus yellows of Elaeocarpus zollingeri . J Gen Plant Pathol 84, 160–164 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-017-0761-4

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