Field Trials for Cultivar Evaluation; Soil and Root Health

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) citrus researchers are collaborating on ground-breaking research projects to fight against HLB. They are working with researchers at the University of California-Riverside (UC-Riverside), Texas A&M, and Washington State University on a project to field-test new citrus cultivars for tolerance or resistance to HLB. The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The three-year project hopes to deliver novel, HLB resistant or tolerant, non-transgenic, and commercially acceptable scion cultivars to the citrus industry, says Ute Albrecht, UF/IFAS plant physiologist participating in the research. Albrecht is an assistant professor at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee.

Learn more about Field Trials for Cultivar Evaluation; Soil and Root Health.

---

Related news Field-Testing Natural Compounds To Fight HLB.