{"id":247,"date":"2020-02-17T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-02-17T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T02:51:28","slug":"citrus-greening-testing-for-commercial-and-residential-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/2020\/02\/citrus-greening-testing-for-commercial-and-residential-citrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrus Greening Testing for Commercial and Residential Citrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for Georgia citrus growers! My citrus pathology extension program was awarded a grant from the 2019 USDA\/AMS Specialty Crop Block Grant Program to conduct a &#8220;Statewide survey of <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/citrus-greening-in-georgia\/\">citrus greening<\/a> caused by <em>Candidatus liberibacter asiaticus<\/em>&#8221; in 2020 and 2021. This means that each year, UGA Cooperative Extension Personnel can now accept a limited number of citrus samples for citrus greening testing <strong>free of charge<\/strong> (this usually costs $40 per sample). If you are a commercial citrus grower or if you have residential\/backyard trees that may be suspect for this disease, please contact your local <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/county-offices.html\">UGA Cooperative Extension office<\/a> for further details regarding where, when, and how samples should be submitted to qualify for free testing. <strong>Samples must be submitted through a UGA Cooperative Extension Office<\/strong>. Both residential and commercial citrus samples (up to 25 samples per county per calendar year) will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, samples will be accepted in early spring (March 1st \u2013 April 15th) and late fall (October 1st \u2013 November 15th). Sample testing will be carried out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alimdl\/\">UGA Plant Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory<\/a> in Tifton, GA.<\/p>\n<p>Additional guidelines and submission instructions can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/files\/2020\/02\/2020-Citrus-Greening-Survey-Guidelines-and-Sample-Submission-Instructions-2.17.20-1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for Georgia citrus growers! My citrus pathology extension program was awarded a grant from the 2019 USDA\/AMS Specialty Crop Block Grant Program to conduct a &#8220;Statewide survey of citrus greening caused by Candidatus liberibacter asiaticus&#8221; in 2020 and 2021. This means that each year, UGA Cooperative Extension Personnel can now accept a limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-information","category-disease-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}