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Selected References

Broschat, T.K., N.A. Harrison, and H. Donselman. 2002. Losses to lethal yellowing cast doubt on coconut cultivar resistance. Palms 46:185-89.

Eden-Green S.J. 1997. History, distribution and present status of lethal yellowing-like disease of palms. Pages 9-25 in: Proceedings of an International Workshop on Lethal Yellowing-Like Diseases of Coconut, Elmina Ghana, November 1995. S. J. Eden-Green and F. Ofori, eds. Natural Resources Institute, U.K.

Frison, E.A., C.A.J. Putter, and M. Diekmann. 1993. Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Coconut Germplasm. Food and Agriculture Organization/International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome.

Harrison, N.A., I. Cordova, P. Richardson, and R. DiBonito. 1999. Detection and diagnosis of lethal yellowing. Pages 183-196 in: Current Advances in Coconut Biotechnology. C. Oropeza, J.L. Verdeil, G.R. Ashburner, R. Cardeña, and J.M. Santamaría, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Harrison, N.A., W. Myrie, P. Jones, M.L. Carpio, M. Castillo, M.M. Doyle, and C. Oropeza. 2002. 16SrRNA interoperon sequence heterogeneity distinguishes strain populations of palm lethal yellowing phytoplasma in the Caribbean region. Annals of Applied Biology 141:183-193.

Harrison, N.A., M. Narváez, H. Almeyda, I. Cordova, M.L. Carpio, and C. Oropeza. 2002. First report of group 16SrIV phytoplasmas infecting coconut palms with leaf yellowing symptoms on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Plant Pathology 51:808.

Howard, F.W., R.C. Norris, and D.L. Thomas. 1983. Evidence of transmission of palm lethal yellowing agent by a planthopper, Myndus crudus (Homoptera, Cixiidae). Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad 60:168-171.

IRPCM Phytoplasma/Spiroplasma Working Team – Phytoplasma Taxonomy Group. 2004. ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’, a taxon for the wall-less non-helical prokaryotes that colonize plant phloem and insects. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 54:1243-1255.

Lee, I.-M., R.E Davis, and D.E. Gundersen-Rindal. 2000. Phytoplasma: phytopathogenic mollicutes. Annual Review of Microbiology 54: 221-255.

McCoy, R.E. 1982. Use of tetracycline antibiotics to control yellows diseases. Plant Disease 66:539-542.

McCoy, R.E., F.W. Howard, J.H. Tsai, H.M. Donselman, D.L. Thomas, H.G. Basham, R.A. Atilano, F.M. Eskafi, L. Britt, L., and M.E. Collins. 1983. Lethal Yellowing of Palms. Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 834, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Mejía, F., M. Palmieri, C. Oropeza, M. Doyle, N. Harrison, E. Aguilar, M. Narváez, R. Estrada, and G. Ortiz, G. 2004. First report of coconut lethal yellowing disease in Guatemala. Plant Pathology 53:800.

Myrie, W.A., L. Paulraj, M. Dollet, D. Wray, B.O. Been, and W. McLaughlin. 2006. First report of lethal yellowing disease of coconut palms caused by phytoplasma on Nevis Island. Plant Disease 90:834.

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