Talk:Citrus greening disease

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On the American Phytopathological Society website there is a photo described as: "Mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata Blanco) with symptoms of yellow shoot and citrus greening, caused by Candidatus Linberobacter (sic) asiaticum, which is vectored by the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri." Note that the causative organism is not Serratia marcescens (an organism that is not very fastidious), but by an organism that has not yet been cultured. The correct spelling of the organism's genus is Liberobacter. Webpage URL: http://www.apsnet.org/online/archive/1999/iw00006.htm

The introduction of this error by MPulier seems inexcusable to me, since I can guess how it occurred. I was involved in a publication chasing down the pathogen of a vine decline in cucurbits. The initial guess was that the citrus greening organism might be involved. The tests proved that though a bacterium was involved, it was not the citrus greening organism. Rather, it turned out to be Serratia marcescens. I suspect that sloppy reading of the article (Avila et al. 1998. Phytopathology 88:428) led to the error.

Actually the correct name is Liberibacter (not Liberobacter). As of February 2007 this Gram negative alpha-proteobacteria has not been cultured or sequenced. Koch's postulates have not been completed on this disease so there is no definite proof that Liberibacter species are responsible for citrus greening.

Citrus greening or Huanglongbing is widely recognised as being caused by Candidatus, identifying the pathogen otherwise is misleading. 155.205.201.11 02:11, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Zheng, D., Armstrong, DM., Yao, W.,  Wu, B., Luo, W., Powell, C., Hunter, W., Luo, F.,  Gabriel,  D., Duan, Y. 2024. Towards the completion of Koch's postulates for the citrus huanglongbing bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus. Horticulture Research 11(3), 1-17, uhae011, https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhae011

Requested Move 2008

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"Citrus vein phloem degeneration" is not a very commonly-used name for this disease; according to, that name is only used in Indonesia. I propose moving the article to Citrus Greening Disease or Huanglongbing (I sort of prefer huanglongbing, since it's one of the earliest names for the disease yet it's still widely used). Sheep NotGoats  (Talk) 16:59, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Since there have been no opposing !votes, I went ahead and moved the page. Sheep NotGoats   (Talk) 18:37, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


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Likubin
Although the US govt sites seem to suggest likubin is the same thing as huanglongbing, neither Taiwan sites nor Chinese sites identify them as the same thing. "Likubin" is actually "sheath blight", affecting rice. Xihe (talk) 22:40, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed text related to likubin. Xihe's assertion is supported by a document retrieved from the University of Florida that identifies likubin as a viral disease with a different insect vector: http://www.imok.ufl.edu/hlb/database/pdf/00002097.pdf Woodega (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Consistent name usage in article
I have edited the article to consistently use "citrus greening disease" throughout, since the use of all the different names without explanation is incredibly confusing. I chose "citrus greening disease" since it's the canonical name on Wikipedia and all other names redirect here. Should the article be moved, say to "Huanglongbing", then it would make since that the article be again edited to use that consistently throughout. Woodega (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Bingo a naturally immune cultivar?
I'm not sure of the difference between a cultivar and a variety, but Bingo is not GMO: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/04/503183540/after-a-sour-decade-florida-citrus-may-be-near-a-comebackJhfrontz (talk) 13:59, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

California
There is huge outbreak of this bacteria in California as of mid? 2017, literally over 200 citrus trees found infected. I am not sure why this is not noted here, the news has been relatively quiet about it, but the information out there is well sourced. If someone who is involved with this topic does not update this article soon, I will update 134.186.234.108 (talk) 22:39, 10 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Here is a source saying there are over 340: https://www.thepacker.com/... 134.186.234.108 (talk) 20:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)