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Chances 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
by chmod775 2y ago
Chances 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.”
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