University of Florida scientists are joining forces at the Crop Transformation Center (CTC) to wage a high-tech war against plant pests and diseases threatening Florida’s crops, including citrus greening. The urgency to find a solution to citrus greening spawned interest to include citrus as an initial focus of the CTC.
Through the CTC, faculty at the main UF campus in Gainesville and at the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred are working to find citrus varieties that can tolerate or even resist citrus greening, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB).
The CTC was established three years ago by UF/IFAS and the state’s citrus industry…