Science for Citrus Health

Candidatus liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), the bacterium thought to cause huanglongbing (HLB), cannot be grown using traditional laboratory methods in petri dishes on agar and nutrients.

All Citrus cultivars tested so far are susceptible to Huanglongbing (HLB), but they are not equally susceptible. Some are able to grow and produce a fairly normal crop, despite supporting high populations of the HLB-associated bacterial pathogen and developing leaf symptoms. Dr.

Attractants for insect pests of agricultural crops play an increasingly important role in management programs. Chemical, visual, and auditory cues that attract insects are identified during laboratory investigations and then verified for their attractiveness in the field. Dr.

Research by Dr. Mark Hoddle, University of California, Riverside Dr.

Since our last blog post, we have been busy writing up various new Research Snapshots covering a variety of projects aimed to help in the fight against Huanglongbing (HLB) the bacterial disease that is devastating US citrus and the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) that vectors it Examples of our latest Sn...