Non-Chemical Control of Plant Mycoplasma Diseases

  • Karl Maramorosch
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Abstract

The population of the world will exceed six billion by the year 2000. Food resources that were once taken for granted and other resources. such as energy and water are gradually being exhausted or contaminated and the Earth’s capacitv is certainly not unlimited. Therefore, the need for restoring damaged resources becomes verv urgent, and the need is obvious for protectinq plants that are used for food, as well as perennial forest trees, from diseases. The primary aim of plant diseases control is the reduction or elimination of losses. Additional aims include the elimination of pathogens, vectors, alternate hosts, and reservoirs of pathogens. Chemical approaches to control have been used successfully against fungal and bacterial diseases, but only rarely against viral and mycoplasma disease. Some of the describe methods have been used successfully long before the mycoplasmal nature of plant disease became recognized. Other control methods are now being tired or contemplated. New strategies will be needed to cope with the problems and to counterbalance the damage caused worldwide by mycoplasma diseases.

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Coconut Palm Aster Yellow Leafhopper Vector Susceptible Host Plant Lethal Yellow 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Karl Maramorosch
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  1. 1.Department of Entomology and Economic ZoologyRutgers, The State UniversityNew BrunswickUSA

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