Periwinkle Plants Provide Ammunition in the War on Citrus Greening
April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010
WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news release:
A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Florida Indian River Research and Education Center have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop.
Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) has proved to be an effective screening tool for treat . . .
A team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Florida Indian River Research and Education Center have turned an ornamental plant into a tool for combating a bacterial disease that threatens the world's citrus crop.
Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) has proved to be an effective screening tool for treat . . .