CICLY-OAP, the Centre for Information on Coconut Lethal Yellowing and Other Associated Phytoplasma is intended to act as a clearing house for information about lethal yellowing and similar diseases of coconuts and other palms. Lethal yellowing is a phytoplasma disease and susceptible coconut palms die within 3 to 6 months of the first symptoms. Millions of coconut palms in the Caribbean and on the Atlantic coasts of Central and South America are at risk because the common variety is highly susceptible. Diseases with a phytoplasma etiology also occur on coconut palms in West and East Africa. Phytoplasma have been associated with coconut diseases in southeast Asia, from where resistant varieties are also known. Visit the CICLY web site.