Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14689

Name

Phytoplasma americanum Lee et al. 2006

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Phytoplasma Firrao et al. 2004

Type Strain

representative organism

APPTW12-NE^T

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Mycoplasmatota corrig. Murray 2021
class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
order Acholeplasmatales Freundt et al. 1984
family Incertae sedis 200 Brown et al. 2010
genus Phytoplasma Firrao et al. 2004
species Phytoplasma americanum Lee et al. 2006

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Phytoplasma americanum Lee et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14689.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14689.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 28, 2022.

References

Lee I-M, Bottner KD, Secor G, Rivera-Varas V. ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma americanum’, a phytoplasma associated with a potato purple top wilt disease complex. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1593-1597. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64251-0 [PubMed].