Healthy Vinca rosea plants, connected by dodder strands with spike-diseased sandal trees developed witches' broom symptoms. Electron microscopy of petioles of the infected Vinca plants revealed the presence of numerous mycoplasma-like bodies. Fresh dodder established on the Vinca plants with witches' broom symptoms and trained onto healthy sandal trees, transmitted the spike disease back to the latter.
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