citrus greening
noun
variants
or citrus greening disease
: a destructive disease of citrus plants that is caused by a bacterium (genus Liberibacter) transmitted by plant lice (Diaphorina citri of Asia and Trioza erytreae of Africa) and is characterized especially by small, often misshapen fruits which typically retain some green coloring even when ripe and by yellow mottling of the leaves with progressive yellowing of the entire plant see asian citrus psyllid
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Appearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday, Florida Citrus Mutual CEO and Executive Vice President Matt Joyner stressed the need to continue providing money for research in the long-running battle against deadly citrus greening disease.
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Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
American orange-juice manufacturers will be on edge until April, when the impact of citrus greening on this year’s crop in Brazil will first become apparent, Andrés Padilla, a citrus-supply expert at Rabobank, a bank serving the agricultural industry, told me.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The citrus industry, which has long struggled with deadly citrus greening disease, development pressures, foreign competition and damage from other hurricanes, faces the smallest harvest this season in more than a century.
—Jim Turner, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
Potential solutions The problems plaguing citrus production are not easily remedied as climate change has made extreme weather more common and scientists have yet to come up with scalable citrus greening treatments.
—Andrea Miller, CNBC, 31 July 2024
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Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
American orange-juice manufacturers will be on edge until April, when the impact of citrus greening on this year’s crop in Brazil will first become apparent, Andrés Padilla, a citrus-supply expert at Rabobank, a bank serving the agricultural industry, told me.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
The citrus industry, which has long struggled with deadly citrus greening disease, development pressures, foreign competition and damage from other hurricanes, faces the smallest harvest this season in more than a century.
—Jim Turner, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
Potential solutions The problems plaguing citrus production are not easily remedied as climate change has made extreme weather more common and scientists have yet to come up with scalable citrus greening treatments.
—Andrea Miller, CNBC, 31 July 2024
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“Citrus greening.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/citrus%20greening. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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