Occurrence and identification of grapevine phytoplasmas in main viticultural regions of Turkey

Intensive surveys were conducted in the main viticultural areas of Turkey in 2009-2010. Two hundred eighty nine symptomatic and 20 non-symptomatic plant samples were collected and subjected to nucleic acid extraction followed by PCR, nested PCR and RFLP analyses to detect phytoplasma presence and for their identification. The incidence rate of phytoplasma infection was 18.33% and the majority of the symptomatic grapevines were infected with...