Luis-Pantoja, Maritza


Publications
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Molecular Characterization of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus’ Strains from Commercial Citrus-Growing Regions in Cuba Using Polymorphic Regions

Citation
Paredes-Tomás et al. (2025). Microorganisms 13 (10)
Names
Liberibacter Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus
Abstract
Studies of the genetic diversity of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ strains based on housekeeping genes have been unsuccessful. The increasing availability of complete genome sequences of several strains from different countries has allowed the identification of regions having greater variability, which have been successfully implemented for the bacterium characterization, including microsatellites, genes of prophage origin, and miniature transposable elements with inverted-repeats (MITEs).
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Identification of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ species in “huanglongbing” infected citrus orchards in the Caribbean

Citation
Luis-Pantoja et al. (2021). European Journal of Plant Pathology 160 (1)
Names
Ca. Phytoplasma Liberibacter
Abstract
Abstract“Huanglongbing” (HLB) is one of the most devastating diseases of citrus orchards worldwide. Samples from 183 citrus plants of different cultivars and rootstock/cultivar combinations, showing HLB symptoms in three Caribbean countries (Cuba, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe-France), were collected to verify the possible co-infection of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ and ‘Candidatus Liberibacter’ species. The 64% of the samples resulted positive to the ‘Ca. L. asiaticus’ and the 27% to diverse ‘Ca. Phytop
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