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Florida's citrus outlook remains bleak. But new science offers hope
- toomuchtodo 2y agoRelated: Major Florida grower [Alico Inc.] to end citrus operations after years of hurricanes and tree disease - https://apnews.com/article/florida-citrus-alico-hurricanes-greening-be79c91639a91c43e93487563a8c5f84 https://apnews.com/article/florida-citrus-alico-hurricanes-g... - January 7, 2025
- chmod775 2y agoChances are with that number of trees affected, some would turn out to be resistant or immune and produce offspring that is as well. Surely they didn't plant a states' worth of genetically near-identical trees, right? Right? Edit: Of course they did. https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2023-05-08/the-20-year-fight-against-citrus-greening-in-florida-has-farmers-and-researchers-exhausted https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2023-05-08/the-20-year-figh... > “The current U.S. regulation defining orange juice as being almost exclusively from C. sinensis locks the industry into a very narrow range of genetic diversity, leaving the Florida citrus industry extraordinarily vulnerable to epidemics when diseases or pests emerge to which sweet orange is highly susceptible, such as HLB.”
- ceejayoz 2y agoSee also: bananas, avocados...