Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Citrus fruit pathogen genome sequenced



"Citrus greening" (also known as Huanglongbing, HLB, or yellow dragon disease) is a tree disease, caused by
the bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and Candidatus Liberibacter africanus. The bacterium is transmitted by psyllid insects.

Ca
. Liberibacter asiaticus' genetic sequence has been saved to GenBank, an open access database sponsored by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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