{"id":2443,"date":"2022-12-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aesthire3.flywheelsites.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:33:49","slug":"developing-hlb-resistant-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/developing-hlb-resistant-citrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing HLB-Resistant Citrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, UF\/IFAS, is working to develop citrus trees that are resistant to huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening. Jose Chaparro, UF\/IFAS associate professor, says, \u201cIn the future, you will not grow a variety that is not HLB tolerant or resistant. It\u2019s not economically feasible long term. Production costs are too high.\u201d Chaparro says that they are breeding cold-hardy fruit that can be grown in North Florida and South Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Zj12qhVe43\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/citrusindustry.net\/2022\/12\/14\/hlb-resistance-is-citrus-breeding-programs-primary-focus\/\">HLB Resistance Is Citrus Breeding Program\u2019s Primary Focus<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;HLB Resistance Is Citrus Breeding Program\u2019s Primary Focus&#8221; &#8212; Citrus Industry Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/citrusindustry.net\/2022\/12\/14\/hlb-resistance-is-citrus-breeding-programs-primary-focus\/embed\/#?secret=YWRPtx9q7u#?secret=Zj12qhVe43\" data-secret=\"Zj12qhVe43\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, UF\/IFAS, is working to develop citrus trees that are resistant to huanglongbing (HLB) or citrus greening. Jose Chaparro, UF\/IFAS associate professor, says, \u201cIn the future, you will not grow a variety that is not HLB tolerant or resistant. It\u2019s not economically feasible long term. Production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,83,84,79,80,85,86,87,81,1,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculturalbiotechnologyspecialist","category-agriculturalcommunicationsspecialist","category-agriculturalmechanicsspecialist","category-agricultureassociate","category-agriculturesystemsassociate","category-agritechnologyspecialist","category-animalsciencespecialist","category-forestryspecialist","category-naturalresources","category-news","category-unmannedaircraftsystemsinagriculture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}