The search for solutions to HLB has been going on for nearly two decades. Growers and researchers have learned ways to improve nutrition programs to keep trees alive and productive, but nowhere near at the level of the days before the disease.
One area of research that could yield a tree resistant to HLB is genetic engineering. There are no transgenic citrus trees produced commercially anywhere in the word, but trees are being developed by scientists. Michael Rogers, director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Citrus Research and Education Center, discussed some of that research during the October All In For Citrus podcast episode.
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