“…Rose is frequently attacked by phytoplasmas. Phytoplasma-like diseases on rose, which might be called rosette (Thomas and Scott, 1953), witchesÕ-broom, dieback, wilt or spring dwarf, were reported in Canada (Epstein and Hill, 1995), New Zealand (Fry and Hammett, 1971), USA (Slack et al, 1976;Hindal et al, 1988;Tipping and Sindermann, 2000), the Netherlands (Bos and Perquin, 1975), UK (Thomas, 1979), former Russia (Protsenko et al, 1972;Protsenko and Surgucheva, 1975) and Poland (Kaminska et al, 2001(Kaminska et al, , 2003. Kaminska et al (2001Kaminska et al ( , 2003 identified for the first time the association of phytoplasma with rose degeneration at molecular level and proved that isolate belongs to subgroup 16SrI-B of aster yellow group.…”