Last week, UCR issued a news release entitled UCR Discovers First Effective Treatment for Citrus-destroying Disease, which shares the news of a licensing agreement being reached with Invaio Sciences. This is extremely exciting news about potentially promising research that could significantly change the future of the citrus industry, both here and in all citrus growing area in the world. Now it will be important to complete studies on the effectiveness of this therapy in greenhouse and field studies.
As yet, there are no published scientific papers describing the methodology by which they discovered it, or the field or lab trials through which they determined its efficacy. As has been the case so often with ACP-HLB, there have been promising strategies that on further inspection fail to meet the criteria of a “cure”.
If it really works in a commercial field setting, it would be a great complement to the canine surveys, since it would be much easier to clear infection from a tree when it is still in the early stages and has not yet become systemic.
The Citrus Research Board has a wait-and-see approach - Glad that something is in the works to be commercialized, but waiting for more test results. This might be a real breakthrough. Read the CRB's response to the recent news:
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