Vectors of Plant Parasites of the Genus Phytomonas (Protozoa, Zoomastigophorea, Kinetoplastida)

Identification of excreted iron superoxide dismutase for the diagnosis of Phtytomonas

“…Lanes -1: day 7; 2: day 10; 3: day 15; 4: day 21; 5: zone opposite the inoculation day 21; 6: tomato extract control; and 7: SODeTOM; marker proteins of pI, stained with Coomassie Blue. even impossible, because promastigote stages of Leptomonas, Herpetomonas, Crithidia, and Blastocrithidia also occur in Phytomonas vectors (Wallace et al 1992, Camargo & Wallace 1994, Podlipaev 2000, and have sometimes been detected in plant tissues. Thus, it becomes necessary to seek new methods to detect the parasite.…”

PCR amplification of the spliced leader gene for the diagnosis of trypanosomatid parasites of plants and insects in methanol-fixed smears

“…It is common knowledge that, upon culturing, the predominant species in primary smears of plants and insects can be outgrown by £agellates underrepresented and undetected in those preparations. Thus, sometimes, what one sees on a slide is not what one recovers on culture [2,4].…”

Cytotoxicity of three new triazolo-pyrimidine derivatives against the plant trypanosomatid: Phytomonas sp. isolated from Euphorbia characias

“…Phytomonas sp. are distributed primarily in tropical and subtropical zones, although they have been described in all continents except the Antarctic (Camargo & Wallace 1994). Although there is a certain knowledge about the biology of this protozoan (Camargo 1999), apart from studies aconducted in our laboratory (Luque et al 2000a, b), little information is available on its control.…”