METHOD FOR DETECTING PATHOGEN CANDIDATUS PHLOMOBACTER FRAGARIAE CAUSATIVE OF STRAWBERRY MARGINAL CHLOROSIS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique whereby Ca. P. fragariae can be detected at high sensitivity, since it is expectable that the spreading of strawberry marginal chlorosis can be prevented and damage on the fruit production can be reduced by detecting Ca. P. fragariae at an early stage and removing the same from production sites of strawberry seedlings and fruits.SOLUTION: There is disclosed a nucleic acid molecule comprising: (a) a nucleotide sequence comprising a specific sequence; (b) a sequence having a homology of at least 95% to the sequence of (a) or being hybridizable to a complementary strand thereof under stringent conditions, or a variant sequence derived from the sequence by substitution, addition and/or deletion of one to several bases; (c) a fragment sequence containing at least 10 nucleotides in (a) or (b); or (d) a complementary strand sequence of (a), (b) or (c).