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N.W. Illinois | I apologize for calling you names, it was not appropriate to say the least.
In reference to your questions specifically about whether Greening Disease can be cultured, no it has not, at least not in repeated testing. However there are many fastidious bacteria that can not be cultured. Being unable to culture many types of bacteria is nothing new and certainly does not mean that the bacteria do not exist. It just means the bacteria have a very precise nutrient and environmental requirement that the lab can not provide.
ARS scientists have published the full genome sequence of the bacteria. Do you think the scientists at the ARS made this whole thing up? What plausible reason would these accredited scientists risk their careers and reputations by making all of this up? If there was the slightest error in any of their work it would be criticized immediately.
The disease is showing up in trees all over Florida including the orange trees in peoples yards. Is the overuse of glyphosate the reason this is happening. Or was it the homeowners overuse of arsenic?
Dr. Erik Mirkov already has resistant trees in studies. He used the spinach plant to achieve this. It will be many years before the trees can be released because of the exhaustive studies and deregulation that scientist most go through to prove the safety of the fruit. Here is a very interesting story about his work and how it came about.
http://today.agrilife.org/2012/03/26/transgenic-citrus-trees/
My guess it will take many different strategies and combination of things to bring this disease under control. The citrus farmers sure do not need the most promising one, the transgenic tree developed by Dr. Mirkov, vilified and made out to something terrible and the scourge of the earth. The farmers have a long enough row to hoe as it is.
Edited by mounder 1/28/2015 06:56
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