Description of Leafhopper, Hebata (Alboneurasca) decipiens (Paoli, 1930) and Its Transmitting Phytoplasma Infesting Sugar Beet Plants
2023
Ibrahim, Heba | Abdelrahman Emam, Azza | Bondok, Ahmed | Ahmed, Magdy | Abd-Elraheem, Amro
The second sugar crop of sugar production after sugar cane world-wide is sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). This plant is subjected to the infestation of several insect pests that cause considerable damage, especially leafhoppers, that can transmit phytopathogens (e.g., phytoplasma). In this work, we identified and described the leafhopper, Hebata (Alboneurasca) decipiens, in addition to detection and molecular identification of Candidatus Phyto-plasma that was transmitted by this leafhopper on sugar beet plants from naturally infected sugar beet plants to an uninfected one. The 16S rDNA gene from phytoplasma was amplified by a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay and directly sequenced using specific primer pairs DNA fragments. The resulting sequences were analyzed and compared with another phytoplasma sequence available at GenBank sequences performing BLAST using DNAMAN.
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