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How the parasite exerts such wide-ranging control is a subject of more than casual curiosity among scientists — phytoplasmas can cause destructive disease in crop plants like carrots.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

When plants are infected by parasitic bacteria called phytoplasmas, their flowers turn into leafy shoots, their petals turn green and they develop a mass of shoots called ‘witches’ brooms’.

From Scientific American • Apr. 9, 2014

The same interaction between SAP54 and these plant proteins increased the plants' attraction for the leafhoppers that transmit phytoplasmas.

From Scientific American • Apr. 9, 2014