Claim · model-written summary
Disease prevalence in the surveyed mint plants ranged from 3% to 5%.
- Taxon
- Mentha arvensis
Mentha arvensise0 - Outcome
- Disease prevalencee1
- Value
- 3% to 5%e1
Verbatim
e0“Mint (Mentha arvensis) is an aromatic and medicinal herb belonging to the family Lamiaceae which is commercially grown in India”
e1“Disease prevalence ranged from 3% to 5%”
Title
Smriti Mall; Anushree Gupta; Apoorva Srivastava New Disease Reports 2026. doi:10.1002/ndr2.70123
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation PCR amplicons of the 16S rRNA and secA genes were obtained from all diseased mint plants but not from asymptomatic plants.
- Observation The 16S rRNA gene of the mint phytoplasma showed over 99% nucleotide identity with multiple Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris strains.
- Observation The mint phytoplasma 16S rRNA gene showed 99.1% identity to the reference strain of Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris from 16SrI subgroup B.
- Association secA gene analysis supported the association of 16SrI-B phytoplasma with mint little leaf disease in India.
- Observation Isolate MLL 01 clustered closely with Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris strains within the 16SrI-B subgroup in phylogenetic analysis.
- Observation The finding expands the host range of Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris to Mentha arvensis in India.
- Observation This is the first report of phytoplasma disease caused by Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris on mint worldwide.