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Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry : Addressing Citrus Greening Disease

By National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Agriculture and Natural Reso

Book information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780309152082, 9780309152075
LCC
SB608.C5N387 2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4156895 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
327\327
Time added
2023-08-14 13:26:32
TEC003000; TEC003030; TEC058000

Description

Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now present in all 34 Floridian citrus-producing counties. Caused by an insect-spread bacterial infection, the disease reduced citrus production in 2008 by several percent and continues to spread, threatening the existence of Florida's $9.3 billion citrus industry. A successful citrus greening response will focus on earlier detection of diseased trees, so that these sources of new infections can be removed more quickly, and on new methods to control the insects that carry the bacteria. In the longerterm, technologies such as genomics could be used to develop new citrus strains that are resistant to both the bacteria and the insect.

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