RNAi Research Offers Psyllid Control Promise For Citrus

Dan Citrus, Florida

U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist Wayne Hunter

U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist Wayne Hunter, based in Fort Pierce, is creating excitement in research circles with his promising work on a genetic based approach to controlling the psyllids that spread HLB. In the first of these reports, he describes how RNAi works. In the second, he discusses efforts to make it work in the grove and how soon it might be available to growers.

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