Tanja Vidovic was joined on Monday’s Sustainable Living show by expert guest Rose Loria to discuss citrus greening. Rose is a scientist at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. She studied plant science at Michigan State University beforejoining the faculty at Cornell, where she worked on vegetable diseases. She left Cornell in 2012 to become the chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at UF. After serving as chair for 12 years, she stepped down to do research on citrus greening.

Topics discussed include:

-what is citrus greening

-when/how did the first greening occur and what spreads it

-what other plants can it affect

-prevention

-signs and symptoms

-what to do if you think your tree may have greening

-research to find a cure

and more!

Find out more about Rose Loria, her research and information on citrus greening, at University of Florida’s website.

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