Occurrence, Impact, and Multilocus Sequence Analysis of Alder Yellows Phytoplasma Infecting Common Alder and Italian Alder in Southern Italy.

Alder yellows (ALY) phytoplasma (16SrV-C) is associated with ALY, a disease of several (alder) species in Europe and in North America. In all affected species, the symptoms are similar. However, latent infections are common.