‘Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium’ associated with almond witches’-broom disease: from draft genome to genetic diversity among strain populations

Table 1 Host, sampling location and accession numbers of 16S rRNA, tufB, groEL and inmp gene nucleotide sequences of analyzed ‘Ca. P. phoenicium’ strains

Strain	Host	Locality	Accession No.
			16S rRNA ^a	tufB ^b	groEL ^c	inmp ^d
A48	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb	Bekaa
A49	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
A50	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
A51	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
A60	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
A65	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
NA202-1	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb	North
NA206-1	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
NA223-1	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb					KM275495
NN204-1	Prunus persica var. nucipersica
NN209-2	Prunus persica var. nucipersica					KM275499
NP207-1	Prunus persica (L.) Batsch					KM275496
SA202	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb	South
SA213	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb		KM275491	KM275492	KM275493	KM275494
SA214	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
SA216	Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
SN205	Prunus persica var. nucipersica
SN209	Prunus persica var. nucipersica
SP202	Prunus persica (L.) Batsch					KM275498
SP232	Prunus persica (L.) Batsch					KM275497

^a 16S rRNA gene nucleotide sequences of other AlmWB phytoplasma strains are identical to the sequence of the strain SA213 (KM275491)
^b tufB gene nucleotide sequences of other AlmWB phytoplasma strains are identical to the sequence of the strain SA213 (KM275492) ^c groEL gene nucleotide sequences of other AlmWB phytoplasma strains are identical to the sequence of the strain SA213 (KM275493)
^d inmp gene nucleotide sequences of other AlmWB phytoplasma strains are identical to the sequence of the strain SA213 (KM275494)

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