Phytoplasma strain collections: the Q-Bank database and the Q-collect project.

The setting of the Q-Bank database freely available on line for quarantine phytoplasmas and also for general phytoplasma identification was linked with a new project Q-collect in order to made widely available the identification of relevant plant pests by nucleic acid sequence comparison of their barcodes and also by providing infected samples that are verified by quality standard for correct phytoplasma identification