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Ground breaking ACP discovery
« on: January 07, 2018, 03:56:13 PM »
December 13, 2018

“In a ground-breaking discovery encompassing six years of research, an international team of scientists led by UC Davis chemical ecologist Walter Leal announced they've identified the sex pheromone of the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), an insect that feeds on citrus and transmits the bacteria that causes the deadly citrus greening disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB).”

http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=25882