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WSU grant will help fight devastating citrus disease

By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Three Washington State University researchers have received a $2.1 million grant to help save the U.S. and global citrus industry. They will develop methods of growing a citrus-destroying bacteria so that strategies to fight the disease it causes can be pursued.