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Reading Up on Citrus ACP and HLB

March 14, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Translating the science of managing HLB Your resource for learning about existing and new tools being developed by researchers to protect and manage citrus from the causative agent of huanglongbing (HLB).
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Citrus Has an Immune Response to HLB

March 11, 2022
LAKE ALFRED, Fla. Sometimes in science, a new perspective brings an a ha! moment. That's what one senior researcher at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences believes happened with his latest research on Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening.
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Getting into the Weeds of Citrus HLB

March 9, 2022
By Ben A Faber
New Candidatus Liberibacter' Pathosystems Focus Issue from APS (American Phytopathological Society) Read the great review of the bacteria that causes Citrus Huanglongbing and then the abstracts of the articles in this edition of Phytopathology.
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Airblast Spray Web App Webinar

Airblast Webinar

March 4, 2022
By Ben A Faber
Join us for a two-hour webinar covering the new Airblast Spray Advisor' and Airblast Spray Planner' web apps, decision support tools for planning and evaluating airblast spray application in trees and vines.
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