Orange juice is a staple on many breakfast tables, but the future availability of citrus products is threatened by the global spread of huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening disease.
Ecology
Jul 15, 2019
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Climate change threatens the medium-term commercial viability of citrus fruits, vines and olives. A study by the Ecophysiology and Biotechnology research group at the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (UJI) - carried out in ...
Ecology
May 28, 2019
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There's nothing like a glass of orange juice to start the morning off right, but prices have soared as the Florida citrus industry fights an epidemic that has reduced its yield by about half in the last 15 years. Citrus greening ...
Biotechnology
Apr 1, 2019
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Crops worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to pandemics, as diseases hitch rides on global flows of people and goods, hopping from continent to continent. Phloem diseases such as citrus greening are one particularly devastating ...
Biotechnology
Dec 4, 2018
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A research team at the São Paulo State University's Bioscience Institute (IB-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 29 fungi with proven action against Xanthomonas citri, a bacterium responsible for citrus canker, an ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 14, 2018
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Xanthomonas citri, the bacterium that causes citrus canker, a disease responsible for major damage to lemon and orange groves in worldwide scale, has a veritable arsenal of weapons to overcome constant competition with other ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2018
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To feed the burgeoning human population, it is vital that the world figures out ways to boost food production.
Biotechnology
May 22, 2018
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Could we soon be forced to do without a glass of orange juice or a slice of grapefruit at breakfast? The answer is unfortunately yes.
Ecology
Apr 25, 2018
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Florida's citrus industry got some dire news Tuesday from an organization that advises the federal government on science and technical matters.
Ecology
Apr 10, 2018
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New clues to how the bacteria associated with citrus greening infect the only insect that carries them could lead to a way to block the microbes' spread from tree to tree, according to a study in Infection and Immunity by ...
Ecology
Mar 26, 2018
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