Phytoplasmas’ Using a Fragment of the Elongation Factor Tu Gene

) gene for phytoplasma identification is reported. barcodes were deposited in the NCBI GenBank and Q-bank databases. barcode performs as well or better than a 1.2 kbp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene and thus provides an easy procedure for phytoplasma identification. The obtained sequences were used to create a publicly available reference database that can be used by plant health services and researchers for online phytoplasma identification