How did we all miss this one? Authors, don't be shy! New Disease Reports - First report of a lethal yellowing phytoplasma in Thrinax radiata and Cocothrinax...
So it appears that the Thrinax radiata and Cocothrinax readii palms in the Yucatan are "immune" to the disease, but probably carriers. Does this give us more...
... Henry I hope your question will encourage other CICLY members to discuss the origin of LY but I must disagree with your use of the word "immune". Immunity...
Hugh - I knew "immunity" was the wrong term to use for a plant, that's why I put it in quotes. But you are right, natural selection for resistance is a better...
Hugh The phyoplasmas associated with coconut diease in Indonesia are only very distantly related to the coconut lethal yellowing phytoplasma or others of the...
Phil Thanks for the insight - the CICLY web page on Indonesia will now need updating - http://www.cicy.mx/dir_acad/cicly/indonesia.html If coconut palms can be...
Henry If plants, rather than seeds, are being sent from Florida to California surely there is now the dual risk of symptomless carriers also bringing vectors...
... also bringing vectors on their foliage?<<< I think you are giving too much credibility to the Burocracy. Florida has a "new" fatal malady in Queen Palms...
Dear All, Greetings. I have the honour to inform you that after discharging my duties since January 2002 as Executive Director of Asian and Pacific Coconut...
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Dear All, I am very pleased to inform you that I have assumed my post as Executive Director of Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) effective 21st July ...
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Dear Dr.Arancon I am very happy to learn abou your joining the post of executive Director, APCC. I have spent long36 years in coconut research and retired as...
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Dear DR.ROMULO N. ARANCON JR, Congratulations and best wishes. Look forward to fruitful interactions. RV Nair, Head, Division of Crop Improvement, Central...
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The following information was extracted from a message posted to the Google coconut group at http://groups.google.com/group/coconut The Millennium Challenge...
From an internet web site: ". . . oxytetracycline hydrochloride (OTC). This combats the disease in two ways: 1.) The OTC makes the sap taste very bad, so the...
Hugh - Never heard of this before, but a quick search found: "The hydrochloride salt of oxytetracycline is a yellow, crystalline powder; odorless, hygroscopic,...
Dear Harries, Are there any systematic studies done to claim that "The OTC makes the sap taste very bad, so the bug finds feeding on treated trees undesirable"...
Good morning, Can someone please forward any available information on the use of nuts from palms or grooves using OTC treatments...what is the recommendations...
Greetings colleagues- On the question of whether OTC makes the sap of palms taste bad so that the bugs don't feed on it, the only individuals who could answer...
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Dear Forrest William Good to read your sense of scientific humour is alive and well and presumably living in Ft. L. Best regards Richard ... From: "Forrest W....
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Gary I believe that OTC application is restricted to palms where the fruit is not used for edible purposes. Perhaps an OTC user can comment on that? I can only...
Richard, Bill and Henry Thanks for your comments, but I wonder why you and Gary and Jeyasingh do not ask about the website where I found the opinions we are...
Jeyasingh I entirely agree with your comments but I must add that you are unlikely ". . . to hear more about this from Drs McCoy, . . ., Dabek, Steiner, . . .,...
You might read this article from Medical News Today: ************************************************************ Coconut Lethal Yellowing In Ghana: A New...
OTC itself is considered odorless and tasteless and its concentration in treated trees is of the order of only a few parts per million and lasts for only...