First report of multiple inflorescence disease of Cirsium arvense and its association with a 16SrIII-B subgroup phytoplasma in Serbia.

Rančić, D.; Paltrinieri, S.; Toševski, I.; Petanović, R.; Stevanović, B.; Bertaccini, A.

This article is the first report of multiple inflorescence disease of Cirsium in Serbia and of its association with phytoplasmas belonging to rRNA group 16SrIII-B. Multiple inflorescences on Cirsium arvense (Asteraceae) have always been attributed to the presence of eriophyid mites, since their first record in 1892. Plants showing symptoms of varying intensity were recorded from more than 10 sites in northern Serbia between 2001 and 2003. These phytoplasmas have recently been identified in plants with similar symptoms in Hungarian vineyards and in other herbaceous or woody host species.

SERBIA; CIRSIUM; THISTLES; RNA; INFLORESCENCES

Plant Pathology, 2005, Vol 54, Issue 4, p561

0032-0862

Academic Journal

10.1111/j.1365-3059.2005.01201.x