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Phytoplasmas: An Introduction
Phytoplasmas are among the most recently discovered plant pathogens. They are wall-less prokaryotes
restricted to phloem tissue, associated with diseases affecting several hundred plant species. The impact of
phytoplasma diseases on agriculture is impressive and, at the present day, no effective curative strategy has
been developed. The availability of rapid and sensitive techniques for phytoplasma detection as well as the
possibility to study their relationship with the host plants is a prerequisite for the management of
phytoplasma-associated diseases