Phytoplasma diseases affecting sesame (seasamum indicum L.) in Egypt /
امراض الفتيو بلازما التى تصيب السمسم فى مصر
Ahmed Ali Rashed Aljamali ; Supervised Maurice Sabry Mikhail , Om-Hashem Mohammed Elbanna
- Cairo : Ahmed Ali Rashed Aljamali , 2013
- 141 P. : facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Plant pathology and Physiology
Phytoplasma causing phyllody, virescence and withesbroom symptoms on sesame were isolated from naturally infected plants. The detected phytoplasmas were transmitted by grafting and dodder into healthy sesame plants. Phytoplasma were detected in naturaly infected sesame plants through examination phloem tissues using light microscope and staind with dienes stain.Using light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy of ultrathin section exhibited phytoplasma units in phloem tissues of infected sesame plants,