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Canker University of Florida Florida Citrus Pest Management Guide: Citrus Canker - Citrus canker, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri, is a leaf, fruit and stem spotting disease that affects numerous species, cultivars, and hybrids of citrus and citrus relatives. UF Citrus Canker Field Identification - "Walking the rows of the citrus grove, look carefully from top of tree canopy to bottom of tree canopy for the circular, yellow halos on leaves." CITRUS CANKER DISEASE Information, by Dean W. Gabriel
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USDA ESTABLISHES REGULATIONS FOR FRUIT MOVEMENT FROM FLORIDA (
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here for the Federal Register Regulations concerning citrus movement from
Florida
Citrus Canker -
"Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, The Threat to
Florida's citrus..."
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR 301). See 301.75 for Citrus Canker. CHAPTER
III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, PART
301--DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES.
Bacterial Citrus Canker. By T. S. Schubert and X. Sun. Plant Pathology
Circular No. 377. Fl. Dept. of Agriculture & Cons. Svcs., Division of Plant
Industry.
Historical
Museum of Southern Florida - "CITRUS CANKER. It wasn't a worm as one
might think by the name, but a terrible germ disease that could be scattered by
the wind or by birds or by no one knew just how."
Citrus canker
Information from Australian Queensland Department of Primary Industries and
Fisheries.
Citrus Canker Eradication Program - Environmental Assessment, April 1999.
Isolation and characterization of mutants of the citrus canker pathogen
Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri that induce a distinct pattern of disease.
Shu Yun Tung and Tsong Teh Kuo. 2000. Can. J. Bot. 78: 1002–1009 (2000).
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