• DOI:10.1038/NBT0297-178
Corpus ID: 11228113

Phytoplasma induced free-branching in commercial poinsettia cultivars

@article{Lee1997PhytoplasmaIF,
  title={Phytoplasma induced free-branching in commercial poinsettia cultivars},
  author={I. Lee and M. Klopmeyer and I. M. Bartoszyk and D. Gundersen-Rindal and Tau-San Chou and Karen L. Thomson and Robert Eisenreich},
  journal={Nature Biotechnology},
  year={1997},
  volume={15},
  pages={178-182}
}

• I. Lee, M. Klopmeyer, +4 authors Robert Eisenreich
• Published 1997
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature Biotechnology

Free-branching poinsettia cultivars that produce numerous axillary shoots are essential for propagating desirable multi-flowered poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima Wild. Klotz). For more than a decade, a biological agent has been suspected to cause free-branching in poinsettias. Attempts to identify the branching agent have failed. Isolation of the pathogen was accomplished using a living host and it was concluded that an unculturable phytoplasma is the cause of free-branching in poinsettias… Expand

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