The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sep., 2004), pp. 330-353 (24 pages) The Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, was discovered in Florida in 1998. It can be one of the most serious ...
The approach involves inserting a gene into a citrus tree that produces a protein that can kill baby Asian citrus psyllids, the bugs that transmit the greening disease. That gene normally occurs ...