Unlabelled: Phytoplasmas are bacterial pathogens located in the plant's phloem that are responsible for several plant diseases and are mainly transmitted by phloem-sucking insects. Apple proliferation (AP) is an economically important disease associated with the presence of ' Phytoplasma mali' which is transmitted by two psyllid species. While is a vector in different regions, the vector efficiency of varies between different populations.
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December 2023
'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali' is the bacterial agent associated with Apple Proliferation, a disease that causes high economic losses in affected commercial apple growing regions. The identification of the disease is carried out by visual inspection performed by skilled professionals in the orchards. To confirm an infection, costly molecular laboratory methods must be applied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the first billion years after the Big Bang, sources of ultraviolet (UV) photons are believed to have ionized intergalactic hydrogen, rendering the Universe transparent to UV radiation. Galaxies brighter than the characteristic luminosity L* (refs. ) do not provide enough ionizing photons to drive this cosmic reionization.
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