The first detection of a phytoplasma from the 16SrV (Elm yellows) group in the mosaic leafhopper Orientus ishidae

In 2009 in Slovenia, an uncultivable cell-wall-less pathogenic bacterium of the class Mollicutes - a phytoplasma belonging to the 16SrV (Elm yellows) group was found in the mosaic leafhopper ( Orientus ishidae ) [Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha:…