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Mycoplasmalike Bodies Associated with Lethal Yellowing Disease of Coconut Palms. Biljana Plavsic -Banjac, Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, New York, Present address of senior author: Department of Botany, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; Peter Hunt(2), and Karl Maramorosch(3). (2)Professor, Department of Botany, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica; and (3)Program Director, Insect Physiology and Virology, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, New York 10701. Phytopathology 62:298-299. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-62-298.

Mycoplasmalike bodies were detected in phloem elements from inflorescences of lethal yellowing-diseased coconut palms. This finding suggests a mycoplasma etiology for lethal yellowing, and is the first report of mycoplasmalike bodies in diseased coconut palms.