Guangdong and Florida Populations of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ Distinguished by a Genomic Locus with Short Tandem Repeats
Open Access
- 1 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Societies in Phytopathology®
- Vol. 100 (6), 567-572
- https://doi.org/10.1094/phyto-100-6-0567
Abstract
Huanglongbing (HLB) (yellow shoot disease) is a highly destructive disease that threatens citrus production worldwide. The disease was first observed in Guangdong, P.R. China, over 100 years ago, and was found in Florida, United States, in 2005. ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ has been associated with HLB in many citrus-growing regions around the world, including Guangdong and Florida. The global epidemiology of HLB, as well as management of the disease, relies on knowledge of ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ populations in different geographical regions around the world. In this study, we identified a genetic marker containing small tandem repeats in the genome of ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ and comparatively analyzed the tandem repeat numbers (TRNs) in ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ populations from Guangdong and Florida. Analyses of TRNs showed that the bacterial population in Guangdong was different from that in Florida. The Guangdong population consisted predominately of strains with a TRN of 7 (TRN7) at a frequency of 47...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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