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Citrus Canker

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University of Florida

Packinghouse Canker ID Training Materials (UF IFAS)
     1 Slide per page                                   6 Slides per page                     8 x 11 Sheet
     1 Slide per page (Spanish)                 6 Slides per page (Spanish)

Narrated (by Dr. Tim Schubert) PowerPoint Presentation

Close-up, Pictures of Citrus Canker (incl. of very YOUNG/SMALL Lesions
  Suitable for printing on 8.5" x 11" sheets.

 

Other Universities and Government Sites
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Proposed Citrus Canker Rule + Supporting Documents
  (Vol. 74, No. 124, Tuesday, June 30, 2009)

Current Canker Rule - Federal Register Publication of the Final Citrus Canker Rule
  (Vol. 72, No. 222/ Monday, Nov. 19, 2007)

  Information regarding Peroxyacetic Acid (PAA) and its efficacy to treat Citrus Canker bacteria

  Revised Risk Management Analysis

  Final Regulatory Impact & Flexibility Analyses

  Environmental Assessment

 

USDA APHIS Citrus Canker Information Website.

   USDA Card Deck with great pictures of Canker and HLB symptoms on citrus fruit and leaves.

   Added page of the USDA Card Deck showing young lesions.
 

Resources for Identifying Citrus Canker on Fruit

Materials from DPI (visit DPI main Canker or CHRP sites)
   Fruit Movement Notice

   Decontamination Training Video

   Canker ID Poster

   Pictures comparing canker at different stages to some other peel blemishes
     1 Slide per page                                   6 Slides per page

   Canker Identification Card for Posting in the Packinghouse                 
 

   360 degree views of citrus fruit with canker and other peel blemishes.
     Click here for a Flash program showing several disorders.

     Below are individual 360 degree views of various citrus fruit disorders (QuickTime Player Required).
     Each is ~4 MB, so allow some time for each to load. Once loaded, one can "grab", rotate
     and zoom each view as desired.

Citrus Canker 1

Citrus Canker 2

Citrus Canker 3

Citrus Canker 4

Citrus Canker 5

Citrus Canker 6

Citrus Canker 7

Citrus Canker 8

Citrus Canker 9

Citrus Canker 10

Citrus Canker 11

Citrus Canker 12

Citrus Canker 13

Citrus Canker 14

Citrus Canker - Lime

 

 

 

 

 

Citrus Canker & Mechanical Damage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mechanical Damage 1

Mechanical Damage 2

Mechanical Damage 3

Mechanical Damage 4

Mechanical Damage 1

Mechanical Damage 1

Mechanical Damage 1

Mechanical Damage 1

 

 

 

 

Canker & Melanose 1

Canker & Melanose 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melanose 1

Melanose 2

Melanose 3

 

 

 

 

 

Alternaria & Melanose 1

Alternaria & Melanose 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alternaria 1

Alternaria 2

Alternaria 3

Alternaria 4

Alternaria 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alternaria & Scab

Scab

Leaf Miner

 

 

 

 

 

Identification of Diseases, Peel Injuries, and Blemishes of Florida Fresh Citrus Fruit (33 MB file!)
    Eldon Brown (Florida Department of Citrus), 1998
    Click here for a format easier to print (print double sided and fold the stack of printed pages in half to obtain a booklet).

University of Florida Canker Resources
Florida Citrus Pest Management Guide: Citrus Canker - Citrus canker, caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri, is a leaf, fruit and stem spotting disease that affects numerous species, cultivars, and hybrids of citrus and citrus relatives.

UF Citrus Canker Field Identification - "Walking the rows of the citrus grove, look carefully from top of tree canopy to bottom of tree canopy for the circular, yellow halos on leaves."

CITRUS CANKER DISEASE Information, by Dean W. Gabriel

Citrus Canker - "Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, The Threat to Florida's citrus..."

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR 301). See 301.75 for Citrus Canker. CHAPTER III--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, PART 301--DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES. 

Bacterial Citrus Canker. By T. S. Schubert and X. Sun. Plant Pathology Circular No. 377. Fl. Dept. of Agriculture & Cons. Svcs., Division of Plant Industry.

http://www.hmsf.org/- Historical Museum of Southern Florida"CITRUS CANKER. It wasn't a worm as one might think by the name, but a terrible germ disease that could be scattered by the wind or by birds or by no one knew just how."

Citrus canker Information from Australian Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.

Citrus Canker Eradication Program - Environmental Assessment, April 1999.

Isolation and characterization of mutants of the citrus canker pathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri that induce a distinct pattern of disease. Shu Yun Tung and Tsong Teh Kuo. 2000. Can. J. Bot. 78: 1002–1009 (2000).

 

Selected Other Sites
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