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Researchers identify protein target to halt citrus greening disease
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June 08, 2017, 08:39:59 PM »
University of Florida researchers may have come a step closer to finding a treatment for a disease called Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, that has been decimating citrus trees in the state. In work published this week in mSphere, an open access journal from the American Society for Microbiology, the investigators describe identifying a small protein from one bacterium living in Asian citrus psyllids—the flying insects that spread the disease as they feed on the trees—that can "cross-talk," moving to another bacterium within the insects to silence so-called "prophage genes" containing viral material in the second bacterium, helping prevent an insect immune reaction that would likely be detrimental to both bacteria.
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-protein-halt-citrus-tree-disease.html
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robbyhernz
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Re: Researchers identify protein target to halt citrus greening disease
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wow!!! Here's hoping!!! I wonder from this point forward, what time frame are they looking at to start testing on trees! Hopefully they move fast enough to where there's an industry left!
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