A holiday reminder
This story tells us five foods that control appetite, and two of the five are fresh produce. Number one is water, number two is leafy greens, number three is instant banana pudding, number four is pickles and number five is apples. One great quote: "I dare you to eat 1,000 calories of apples - it's impossible." Pecan pie, on the other hand....
Another reminder for the holidays - because of canker, no Florida citrus can be shipped to other citrus states this year, even as part of a gift package.
Labels: Citrus, citrus canker, Diet, FDA
posted by Tom Karst @ 6:12 PM
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December 26, Miami Herald — Guava tree may stop citrus greening. The tropical guava tree
could hold the secret to stopping citrus greening, a deadly plant disease that is spreading rapidly
in Florida, a team of U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists said. Tim Gottwald, a plant
pathologist at the U.S. Horticultural Research Lab in Fort Pierce, FL, said that in southern
Vietnam, planting guava trees alongside citrus trees has suppressed the insect that spreads
greening. The bacterial disease has not appeared for 15 years in the Vietnamese groves, he said.
The research lab is jump−starting research by buying 15,000 to 20,000 guava trees to learn how
the guava might suppress the psyllids that spread greening, lab director Calvin Arnold said. The
team, which includes Gottwald, has commitments from 10 major citrus growers in greening's
hot zone of South and Southwest Florida to plant guava trees in their groves.
Citrus greening information: http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/agricultural/fruit/citrus/ASP−hoy.ht m
Source: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/16317709.htm
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