Citrus threat huanglongbing (HLB) - Could the rootstock provide the cure?

Rafaqat A Gill; Xianglian Li; Shuo Duan; Qian Xing; Ralf Müller-Xing

doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1330846

Citrus threat huanglongbing (HLB) - Could the rootstock provide the cure?

Front Plant Sci. 2024 Feb 9:15:1330846. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1330846. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Rafaqat A Gill^{1

2}, Xianglian Li^{1

2}, Shuo Duan³, Qian Xing^{1

2}, Ralf Müller-Xing^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang, China.
² College of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China.
³ China-USA Citrus Huanglongbing Joint Laboratory (A Joint Laboratory of The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Gannan Normal University), National Navel Orange Engineering Research Center, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: CRISPR/Cas9; Candidatus Liberibacter (CL); Citrus fruit trees; Citrus greening; grafting; heritable transgene-free genome editing; root-to-shoot transport; tRNA-like structures (TLSs).

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was kindly funded by Jiangxi Province Recruitment Program of Foreign Experts (project no jxsq2023104003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (project nos 31640054 and 31771602), and Starting Grants of the Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang (project nos 2021ZWZX24 and 2021ZWZX25) and Jiangxi Province Lushan Botanical Garden, CAS, National Demonstration Platform for Attracting Talents and Intelligence (project no YZJD2023020), and Jiangxi Province Natural Science Foundation (project no S2023ZRYCL0074).