{"id":300,"date":"2020-08-14T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:52:32","slug":"citrus-greening-and-citrus-canker-testing-for-commercial-and-residential-citrus-restarting-sept-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/2020\/08\/citrus-greening-and-citrus-canker-testing-for-commercial-and-residential-citrus-restarting-sept-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrus Greening AND Citrus Canker Testing for Commercial and Residential Citrus (RESTARTING Sept. 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good news for Georgia citrus growers! After being forced to suspend our citrus greening testing of Georgia citrus samples back in March due to COVID-19, we are now able to restart this testing as of September 1st, 2020.  <strong>In addition, we can now test samples for Citrus Canker as well as Citrus Greening<\/strong>, due to the receipt of additional funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Fall 2020, samples will be accepted during the month of September. <\/strong>Sample testing will be carried out by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/alimdl\/\">UGA Plant Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory<\/a>&nbsp;in Tifton, GA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original announcement regarding this testing program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My citrus pathology extension program was awarded a grant from the 2019 USDA\/AMS Specialty Crop Block Grant Program to conduct a \u201cStatewide survey of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/citrus-greening-in-georgia\/\">citrus greening<\/a>&nbsp;caused by&nbsp;<em>Candidatus liberibacter asiaticus<\/em>\u201d 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&nbsp;<strong>free of charge<\/strong>&nbsp;(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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/county-offices.html\">UGA Cooperative Extension office<\/a>&nbsp;for further details regarding where, when, and how samples should be submitted to qualify for free testing.&nbsp;<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\n\n\n<p>Additional guidelines and submission instructions can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/files\/2020\/02\/2020-Citrus-Greening-Survey-Guidelines-and-Sample-Submission-Instructions-9.29.20.pdf\">here<\/a>. (Please note that the period for testing samples in Fall 2020 has been changed to September 1st through October 15th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for Georgia citrus growers! After being forced to suspend our citrus greening testing of Georgia citrus samples back in March due to COVID-19, we are now able to restart this testing as of September 1st, 2020. In addition, we can now test samples for Citrus Canker as well as Citrus Greening, due to [&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-300","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\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}