Strategic planning for the Florida citrus industry
Subtitle: addressing citrus greening disease
By: Committee on the Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry: Addresssing Citrus Greening Disease (Huanglongbing), Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Contributors: National Academies Press (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780309152075
Subjects: Citrus; Citrus fruits; Citrus fruit industry; Coloring; Diseases and pests
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 longer-term, technologies such as genomics could be used to develop new citrus strains that are resistant to both the bacteria and the insect."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-182).

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Challenges to citrus production; title: Citrus greening research and development and industry preparedness; title: Recommendations on organizational changes, technology development, and systems approaches for minimizing the impacts of Huanglongbing and other diseases and pests in Florida citrus; title: Strategies for implementing plans for mitigation of Huanglongbing and other problems in citrus production.