date:Feb 19, 2019
The battle to save the citrus industry is pitting crop producers and a team of agriculture researchers -- including agricultural communications professor Taylor K. Ruth of the University of Illinois -- against a formidable brown bug, the Asian citrus psyllid, which spreads the disease.
Trees infected with the disease, also called Huanglongbing or HB, bear small, misshapen, bitter-tasting green fruit and often die within five years. Currently, there's no known cure for the disease, which has cos