Analysis of the stability of tandem repeats upon transmission of the pathogen from Duncan grapefruit infected with HA haplotype of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’.

aCLas-infected greenhouse-grown Duncan grapefruit (DG-GH) used as inoculum source for graft or psyllid transmission of the pathogen.bPsyllids that acquired the pathogen after feeding on DG-GH plant.cDG and MV plants graft-inoculated using tissue from the source DG-GH.dReceptor plants (DG, MV, Citrus macrophylla, Sun Chu Sha and Clementine mandarins, sour orange) that became infected upon psyllid transmission of the bacterium from the source DG.eNumber of clones contained a particular number of repeats out of total clones sequenced.