Salix tetradenia Hand.-Mazz: a new natural plant host of ‘Candidatus phytop…

This article reports Salix tetradenia Hand.-Mazz as a new host of Candidatus phytoplasma and demonstrates its association with witches’broom disease on S. tetradenia plants. Plants exhibited typical visual symptoms of phytoplasma with virescence, abnormality of flowers and witches’ broom, and phytoplasma bodies were observed by transmission electron microscopy. Products of 1.2 kb were ampli…