Candidatus Phytoplasma Sacchari
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''Candidatus'' Phytoplasma sacchari is a species of
phytoplasma Phytoplasmas are obligate intracellular parasites of plant phloem tissue and of the insect vectors that are involved in their plant-to-plant transmission. Phytoplasmas were discovered in 1967 by Japanese scientists who termed them mycoplasma-lik ...
pathogen associated with sugarcane grassy shoot disease (SCGS). This SCGS phytoplasma belongs to the
Rice Yellow Dwarf Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera ''Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticated, ...
(RYD) group.


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Sugarcane diseases Candidatus taxa {{Mollicutes-stub