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Predicted ATP-binding cassette systems in the phytopathogenic mollicute Spiroplasma kunkelii
Spiroplasma kunkelii is a cell wall-free, helical, and motile mycoplasma-like organism that causes corn stunt disease in maize. The bacterium has a compact genome with a gene set approac...
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Gene content and organization of an 85-kb DNA segment from the genome of the phytopathogenic mollicute Spiroplasma kunkelii
Spiroplasma kunkelii, the causative agent of corn stunt disease in maize ( Zea mays L.), is a helical, cell wall-less prokaryote assigned to the class Mollicutes. As part of a project to sequence the entire S. ...
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Characterization of Thermophilic Proteolytic Spore-Forming Bacteria from a Geothermal Site in Lithuania Based on 16S rDNA RFLP and ITS-PCR Analyses1
Forty-two strains of gram-positive, aerobic, heterotrophic, obligately thermophilic, spore-forming bacteria were isolated from a geothermal site near the Baltic Sea in Lithuania. All of the strains were able t...
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New Group 16SrIII Phytoplasma Lineages in Lithuania Exhibit rRNA Interoperon Sequence Heterogeneity
Previously undescribed phytoplasmas were detected in diseased plants of dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) exhibiting virescence of flowers, thistle (Cirsium arvense) exhibiting symptoms of white leaf, and a Gailla...