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'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum' (CLso) is a frequent bacterium in carrot in southern and western Finland but is also occurring in South Savonia. The bacterium is unculturable, lives as a parasite and multiplies in the phloem vessels and is transmitted by the carrot psyllid Trioza apicalis. In Spain, France and Finland the bacterium has also been found in parsnip. The aim of this thesis was to study the occurrence and genetic variation of this bacterium in carrot and parsnip in Satakunda, Southwest Finland and South Savonia from such parsnip and carrot fields where psyllids and discolouration symptoms in foliage have been detected. All the samples were collected based on foliar discolouration symptoms. Four wild plants from the family Polygonaceae were collected from one carrot field and one parsnip field in Satakunda. These plants showed similar foliar discolouration as the carrots. Other criteria for collecting the carrot samples was based on occurrence of psyllids and leaf curling. Samples of parsnips were collected from vegetable farms, where parsnips were grown nearby the carrot fields and where psyllids had been detected. The samples were analysed by real-time PCR with primer combination specific to CLso. Those samples that had high amounts of bacteria were chosen for sequencing and detection of haplotype. CLso was detected in 62,9 % of the carrot samples, in 90,8 % of the parsnip foliage samples and in 76,9 % of the parsnip root samples and in all the samples of symptomatic wild plants. Based on the ftsZ gene sequence, a new haplotype of CLso, named haplotype H, was identified in three of the parsnip samples from Satakunda and in two samples of pale persicaria (Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Gray). This is the ninth haplotype of CLso identified.