Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extremely small bacteria that lack a cell wall and are transmitted by insects to plants, where they cause disease by infecting the phloem.
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- noun Any of various
specialized bacteria that areobligate parasites of plantphloem tissue and of someinsects , characterized by the lack of acell wall , a pleiomorphic orfilamentous shape (normally with adiameter of less than onemicrometer ), and their very smallgenomes .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yellows disease is caused by a microorganism called a phytoplasma.
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Hot dry weather is not favorable for either the phytoplasma or the leafhopper.
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The leafhopper acquires the phytoplasma while feeding by inserting its stylet a long, slender hollow feeding structure into the phloem of infected plants and withdrawing the phytoplasma with the plant sap.
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Experts do know that the disease is a phytoplasma, a type of bacteria that lacks a cell wall.
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The phytoplasma flourish inside the palm and plug up the vascular system.
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The phytoplasma flourish inside the palm and plug up the vascular system.
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Spiroplasma citri or stolbur phytoplasma infected plants.
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These insects spread the disease-causing phytoplasma (bacteria-like organisms) from plant to plant as they feed.
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A number of weeds can also harbor the phytoplasma.
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"We're really looking for a needle in a haystack, because we have to collect a lot of insects and we're looking for the insect that has the phytoplasma within it's little body," said Monica Elliott, professor of plant pathology at the University of Florida's research and education center in Fort Lauderdale.
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