Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Real-time PCR Diagnosis and Quantification of Phytoplasmas -- 2 Phytoplasma Genomics, from Sequencing to Comparative and Functional Genomics - What Have We Learnt? -- 3 Functional Genomics of Phytoplasmas -- 4 Prospects of Multiple Gene-based Systems for Differentiation and Classification of Phytoplasmas -- 5 Recent Advances in 16S rRNA Gene-based Phytoplasma Differentiation, Classification and Taxonomy -- 6 Phytoplasma Phylogeny and Detection Based on Genes other than 16s rRNA -- 7 Movement of Phytoplasmas and the Development of Disease in the Plant -- 8 Biochemical Changes in Plants Infected by Phytoplasmas -- 9 Plant Resistance -- 10 Phytoplasma Diseases of the Gramineae -- 11 Phytoplasma Epidemiology: Grapevines as a Model -- 12 Phytoplasma Epidemiological Systems with Multiple Plant Hosts -- 13 Control of Phytoplasma Diseases and Vectors -- 14 Psyllid Vectors and their Control -- 15 Microbial Symbionts of Auchenorrhyncha Transmitting Phytoplasmas: a Resource for Symbiotic Control of Phytoplasmoses -- 16 Transmission Specificity and Competition of Multiple Phytoplasmas in the Insect Vector -- 17 Current and Possible Future Distributions of Phytoplasma Diseases and their Vectors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Colour plate.