In a survey in 2020, Salix babylonica trees displaying symptoms of phyllody, little leaves, and dieback were observed Xinjiang province China. Nested PCRs carried out using universal primer pairs for 16 S rRNA tuf genes, detected the presence phytoplasmas symptomatic trees, while no amplification was found symptomless trees. Blastn phylogenetic analyses showed that belong to species ‘Candidatus...
