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STUDY FORECASTS COST OF REGULATIONS ON CALIFORNIA CITRUS INDUSTRY Citrus Research Board Report Explains Cost Impacts on Growers August 20, 2018 Visalia, Calif.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes. A study on Acmispon strigosus, a plant in the pea family, showed a 13-fold growth increase in plants that partnered with a highly effective strain of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Bradyrhizobium.

This is the most recent activity summary of a group of organizations working on the Invasive Shot Hole Borers and their associated fungal symbionts.

So I got called out to see an orchard that had dieback. Over the phone it sounded like Dothiorella Leaf Blight (http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10354). This symptom shows up when there has been water stress of some sort, over a period of a few weeks to months.

When a biocontrol agent turns on you, it can be painful. Recently a grower called in asking about an insect that had bit him when he picked it up. It caused a fearsome pain and some swelling.