Species code:	AYWBP
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Tenericutes; Mollicutes; Acholeplasmatales; Acholeplasmataceae; Candidatus Phytoplasma; Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (TaxID: 322098) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Phytoplasmas have diverged from Gram-positive bacteria, and belong to the genus Phytoplasma within the class Mollicutes. They are plant pathogens, causing severe symptoms such as stunting, phyllody, witches broom, yellowing, and yield losses in over 300 economically important plant species worldwide. Transmission of phytoplasmas to plants occurs when insects feed from plant phloem. The bacteria are introduced into plant phloem with insect saliva. In plants, phytoplasmas remain restricted to the phloem tissue where they systemically spread throughout the plant. They are among the smallest self-replicating organisms known, and are characterized by a small genome with a low G+C content, and a lack of a firm cell wall.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: Plant pathogen Number of membranes: 1 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of AYWBP entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 690 (119 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 571 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000061 (circular; 706,569 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAYWB-I EMBL accession number CP000062 (circular; 3,972 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAYWB-II EMBL accession number CP000063 (circular; 4,009 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAYWB-III EMBL accession number CP000064 (circular; 5,104 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAYWB-IV EMBL accession number CP000065 (circular; 4,316 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=16672622; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Bai X., Zhang J., Ewing A., Miller S.A., Jancso Radek A., Shevchenko D.V., Tsukerman K., Walunas T., Lapidus A., Campbell J.W., Hogenhout S.A. ; "Living with genome instability: the adaptation of phytoplasmas to diverse environments of their insect and plant hosts."; J. Bacteriol. 188:3682-3696(2006).
Web links:	Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid322098%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Ayel_PHYTOPLASMA Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Aster_phytoplasma.html PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p13478_Ast_yello  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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