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A UC Riverside-led team is looking at tiny underground microorganisms for a way to prevent a huge problem Huanglongbing, a disease with no cure that has decimated citrus orchards worldwide.

Finding problems in the field. From this to this, in three days.

Individual microbes often have defined relationships with their hosts that include beneficial, commensal, and pathogenic interactions.

For anyone trying to figure out what sort of critter is causing damage to their farm, garden, home or park, the University of California Statewide IPM Program has an online tool that can help.

Huanglongbing (HLB) and its causal agent Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) are a serious problem for the US citrus industry, with Florida and Texas already heavily affected, and California at an early stage.