Other Plant Disease -- South Africa
Researchers expect the imminent arrival of the Asian greening disease [huanglongbing, HLB] vector or the bacteria in South Africa. The South African [citrus] industry should be very concerned, [said] Dr Vaughan Hattingh, Citrus Research International. Arrival of HLB is not a case of if, but rather when.
The vector, the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP; _Diaphorina citri_), was in 2015 detected in Tanzania, 2016 in Kenya, and is known to occur in Reunion and Mauritius. However, in Kenya and
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