Potentially Huge News for Citrus

[JoeP450]

Here’s an article.....absent of any data, study design ect but purports to have found a cure for citrus greening and the rationale seems to make sense by isolating resistant genes of finger limes. I really hope this pans out and we can bring back citrus again. https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/07/07/uc-riverside-discovers-first-effective-treatment-citrus-destroying-disease

-joe

[CowboyFig]

Great article! I didn’t realize the finger lime was tolerant of Greening. Hope this works and also makes me wanna go buy a finger lime tree!

[johnb51]

Great news.  Citrus acreage in Florida is a fraction of what it once was.  It seems like it's gone forever.

[Epicatt2]

Great news.  Citrus acreage in Florida is a fraction of what it once was.  It seems like it's gone forever.

While citrus acreage is much reduced, yes, this treatment also bodes well for us backyard citrus growers.

Wondering now how long it will be before this treatment becomes available to us of the public.

Cheers!

Paul M.
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[Jabba The Hutt]

Fake news, Fake news!!!! There are no cures for diseases just cut and burn all your citrus immediately as it is your duty!  

Always wondered about grafting onto greening resistant rootstock but this could have a similar effect! Very exciting. A few of us knew it would be fine, that we would just have to wait it out for somebody who could profit off this to make a "real cure"

[Jabba The Hutt]

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[Chicken Vindaloo]

Wow, I hope it's as good as it sounds!

[ScottR]

Great news indeed, sure hope it work out!

[Budtropicals]

Don't forget about the entourage of other citrus diseases!

[Sandiegojane]

Always wondered about grafting onto greening resistant rootstock but this could have a similar effect! Very exciting. A few of us knew it would be fine, that we would just have to wait it out for somebody who could profit off this to make a "real cure"

I wonder whether grafting a branch of finger lime onto other citrus varieties or spraying a crude extract from finger lime trimmings would would impart a protective effect.  Will be interesting to see where the peptide is expressed and in what quantities.

[johnb51]

Don't forget about the entourage of other citrus diseases!

Remind us.

[BR]

Great news.  Citrus acreage in Florida is a fraction of what it once was.  It seems like it's gone forever.

Unfortunately, you're right. So much of that acreage has been sold off, very sad.

[achetadomestica]

I have been saying this for a long time, the big growers have been planting during the
citrus pandemic. All this did was get rid of the small growers. A friend that manages
a grove told me if it wasn't for greening orange juice would have been 10 cents a gallon
from over production and Brazilian imports?

It all makes you wonder like the current pandemic.

How does a virus go all over the World but stays in a little tiny town in China.
That virus should have been all over China before they even gave it a name.