Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs contains the edited papers presented at the Third Working Party meeting organized by Professor Karl Maramorosch at Rutgers University, New Jersey, in August 1979. This book also includes additional chapters by the invited contributors in the meeting. Organized into 15 chapters, this book begins with the isolation, characterization and identification of spiroplasmas and mycoplasma-like organisms. It then describes the various diseases of trees and shrubs, specifically yellows disease, stubborn disease, Paulownia witches' broom disease, mulberry dwarf, blueberry stunt, and sandal spike disease. It also elaborates the control of tree diseases by chemotherapy. This treatise will provide a standard reference work for all interested in plant mycoplasma diseases in forest pathology, entomology, and disease control.

Importance of forest entomology. The control of forest insects. The controle of insects injurious to forest products. The beetles: bark-beetles and ambrosia beetles. The moths and butterflies. Sawflies, horntails, bees, and ants. Aphids, scale, and others. Some other orders of insects and the mites. Termites or white ants.

Early issues include some publications of learned societies as well as state documents.