Complete Genome Sequence of " Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris" RP166, a Plant Pathogen Associated with Rapeseed Phyllody Disease in Poland

Shu-Ting Cho; Agnieszka Zwolińska; Weijie Huang; Roland H M Wouters; Sam T Mugford; Saskia A Hogenhout; Chih-Horng Kuo

doi:10.1128/MRA.00760-20

Complete Genome Sequence of " Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris" RP166, a Plant Pathogen Associated with Rapeseed Phyllody Disease in Poland

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Aug 27;9(35):e00760-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00760-20.

Authors

Shu-Ting Cho¹, Agnieszka Zwolińska², Weijie Huang³, Roland H M Wouters³, Sam T Mugford³, Saskia A Hogenhout³, Chih-Horng Kuo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Virology and Bacteriology Department, Institute of Plant Protection, National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland.
³ Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
⁴ Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan chk@gate.sinica.edu.tw.

Abstract

The complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris" RP166, which consists of one 829,546-bp circular chromosome, is presented in this work. This bacterium is associated with rapeseed phyllody disease in Poland and belongs to the 16SrI-B (i.e., aster yellows) group.