Report of the Board of Control of the State Educational Institutions of Florida for the Period ...

by Florida. Board of Control

1919

Includes reports from: University of Florida, Florida State College for Women, Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes.

Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry

by National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on the Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry: Addressing Citrus Greening Disease (Huanglongbing)

2010 · National Academies Press

Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now present in all 34 Floridian citrus-producing counties. Caused by an insect-spread bacterial infection, the disease reduced citrus production in 2008 by several percent and continues to spread, threatening the existence of Florida's $9.3 billion citrus industry. A successful citrus greening response will focus on earlier detection of diseased trees, so that these sources of new infections can be removed more quickly, and on new methods to control the insects that carry the bacteria. In the longerterm, technologies such as genomics could be used to develop new citrus strains that are resistant to both the bacteria and the insect.