Privet Alex,

The authors do believe such studies are useful for this purpose. They declare "EMVs may display in plants the features of infect from the viewpoint of virulence criteria—invasivity, infectivity and toxigenicity—and favor bacterial phytopathogenicity. In this connection, detection of full content of A. laidlawii PG8 EMVs regarding proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids in different environments and careful analysis of pathogenicity of vesicles seem very actual from the viewpoint of fundamental biological research of the smallest prokaryotes as well as practical developments of controlling mycoplasma infections..".

However, my personal view is you can get some understanding of the processes involved by studying interaction of this organism with plants, but results need to be compared with plant x  phytoplasma interactions and there is growing knowledge in this area..

Thank you Ranjith! I have similar opinion. Anyway, it is interesting subject of research, just need multidisciplinary team, not only biochemical or genomic people. 

Dear Alex, I want to support the recommenations of Ranjith Pathirana - I agree with all of his remarks. We  Need to know more abut the EMVS - am exciting field of plant pathology but highly interesting ... please follow this ... not only Molecularlay but also with Impacts on practical applications ... best wishes - Heinz-W. Dehne

Dear Prof. Dehne, we are going to start next week a work on practical application exactly...