Feng, Z.


Publications
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First Report of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ from Atalantia buxifolia in Guangdong, China

Citation
Deng et al. (2008). Plant Disease 92 (2)
Names
Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus
Abstract
Atalantia buxifolia (Poir.) Oliv., synonym Severinia buxifolia (Poir.) Ten. as commonly found in literature, is a common landscape plant and a popular Chinese medicinal herb known as Jiubingle or Dongfengjie. It remains unclear if this rutaceous plant could host ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’, the pathogen of citrus Huanglongbing (HLB) in Guangdong, P. R. China. This information is important for HLB control in citrus because infected A. buxifolia could serve as a source of inoculum. In Aug