Cellier, G.


Publications
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First Report of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ Associated with Huanglongbing on Citrus latifolia in Martinique and Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Citation
Cellier et al. (2014). Plant Disease 98 (5)
Names
Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus
Abstract
Huanglongbing is an unculturable vascular citrus pathogen transmitted from infected to healthy plants through grafting or by citrus psyllids, Diaphorina citri mainly in Asia and America and Trioza erytreae in Africa. This phloem limited gram-negative bacterium causes dramatic yield losses and is classified into three species based on 16S rDNA sequence analysis (2): (i) ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ (Las), the most epidemiologically active, widespread and heat tolerant species; (ii) ‘Ca. L