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Red ring disease on the coconut palm, inoculation studies and histopathology. Nematologica 14: 395-403. CABI/EPPO (1999). Rhadinaphelenchus cocophilus. Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases No. 786. CAB INTERNATIONAL. Wallingford, UK. Chinchilla CM. (1991). The red ring little leaf syndrome in oil palm and coconut palm. ASD Oil Palm Papers No. 1 ...
Cadang-cadang is a disease caused by Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd, Cocadviroid cadangi), a lethal viroid of several palms including coconut (Cocos nucifera), African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), anahaw (Saribus rotundifolius), and buri (Corypha utan). The name cadang-cadang comes from the word gadang-gadang that means dying in Bicol. [1]
Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly just called oil palm but also sometimes African oil palm or macaw-fat. [3] The first Western person to describe it and bring back seeds was the French naturalist Michel Adanson .
Florida's iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill. Spread by a rice-sized, plant-hopping ...
Ganoderma zonatum is a plant pathogen that infects the palm species causing butt rot.It is a fungus that infects the bottom 122–152 centimeters (4–5 feet) of the plant also rotting the roots.
Ganoderma orbiforme – most commonly known as G. boninense or just Ganoderma in oil palm pathology – is a species of polypore fungus that is widespread across southeast Asia. It is a plant pathogen that causes basal stem rot , a disease of the African oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ).
Lethal yellowing (LY) is a phytoplasma disease that attacks many species of palms, including some commercially important species, such as the coconut and date palm.In the Caribbean, it is spread by the planthopper Haplaxius crudus (former name Myndus crudus) which is native to Florida, parts of the Caribbean, parts of Australia and Central America. [1]
Oil from Elaeis guineensis is also used as biofuel. Human use of oil palms may date back to about 5,000 years in coastal west Africa. Palm oil was also discovered in the late 19th century by archaeologists in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3000 BCE. [6] It is thought that Arab traders brought the oil palm to Egypt. [citation needed]