Mason Chad Hoskins

BEYOND THE GROVE: UNVEILING THE ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY OF X-DISEASE, ‘CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA PRUNI’, STRAINS IN EXTRA-ORCHARD ENVIRONMENTS

Commercial cherry growers throughout North America have experienced significant crop losses over the last decade due to an outbreak of X-disease, caused by ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ (Harper et al. 2023). The X-disease phytoplasma is part of ‘Ca. Phytoplasma’ 16SrIII group. T...