Cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia B.) is an important crop in Vietnam for domestic consumption and exportation. In recent years, a disease known as cinnamon witches’ broom (CinWB) has been discovered on cinnamon grown in Tra Bong district - Quang Ngai province. The typical symptoms of CinWB were the formation of small tumors on the stems, branches, petioles, and veins of plants. The tumors become long squid-like tassels giving the appearance of a witches’ broom. Infected plants are stunted, with delayed growth and development, causing a high reduction in the yield and quality of farmed cinnamon. In the present study, nested-PCR was applied with the universal primer pairs P1/P7 and R16F2n/R16R2. PCR products of an approximate size of 1200 bp were amplified from the twelves CinWB-showing samples collected from Tra Bong district, Quang Ngai province. | Molecular detection and identification of a phytoplasma associated with cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia B.) witches’ broom disease in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam
