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Cuban research scientists tour citrus packing house in Florida

Director of Cuba’s Plant Health Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones de Sanidad Vegetal, INISAV) Dr. Berta Lina Muiño, and fellow INISAV scientists tour the IMG citrus packing house in Vero Beach, Florida in 2015. The collaborative research project between INISAV and the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation (now the UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences) was the first USDA-funded project supporting field research in Cuba, and Cuban field research in Florida in nearly 50 years.  Photograph by Fred Royce. Guest curators Fred Royce and William Messina