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Agriculture · Q822

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 822

Q822

Select the disease(s) caused by Mycoplasma like organisms (MLO)

A.
Brinjal little leaf
B.
Rice yellow dwarf
C.
Sugarcane grassy shoot
D.
All of these
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
The diseases caused by Mycoplasma-like organisms (MLO) are Brinjal little leaf, Rice yellow dwarf, and Sugarcane grassy shoot.
Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that, like the other members of the class Mollicutes, lack a cell wall around their cell membranes.
This characteristic makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. They can be parasitic or saprotrophic and causes different diseases in plants as well as humans.