Figure 5

Phylogenetic distance tree of phytoplasmas constructed using the neighbor-joining method by comparing 16S rDNA sequences selected from GenBank and 16S rDNA sequence of sampled.
Multiple alignments were performed with ClustalW and edited to a specific length of 1339 bp before constructing the distance tree. Numbers above the branches are confidence values obtained from 1000 bootstrap replicates. Sampled phytoplasma in PNG is shown by arrow as a member of 16SrIV group.