| 'candidatus phytoplasma palmicola', associated with a lethal yellowing-type disease of coconut (cocos nucifera l.) in mozambique. | in this study, the taxonomic position and group classification of the phytoplasma associated with a lethal yellowing-type disease (lyd) of coconut (cocos nucifera l.) in mozambique were addressed. pairwise similarity values based on alignment of nearly full-length 16s rrna gene sequences (1530 bp) revealed that the mozambique coconut phytoplasma (lydm) shared 100% identity with a comparable sequence derived from a phytoplasma strain (ldn) responsible for awka wilt disease of coconut in nigeria, ... | 2014 | 24585372 |