Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.30500

Name

Phytoplasma luffae Davis et al. 2017

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

LfWB^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 luffae Davis et al. 2017

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 luffae Davis et al. 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.30500.

Source File

10.1601/tx.30500.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 28, 2022.

References

Davis RE, Zhao Y, Wei W, Dally EL, Lee I-M. 'Candidatus Phytoplasma luffae', a novel taxon associated with witches' broom disease of loofah, Luffa aegyptica Mill. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3127-3133. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001980 [PubMed].