University of Florida/IFAS faculty and UF students, along with the University of Havana researchers, are hosted at a Cuban citrus farm and meet with farm administrators and workers (2006). This was at the high point of production for Cuba’s citrus industry, when Cuba was the third largest grapefruit producer in the world, behind the United States and Israel. Since that time, Huanglongbing (HLB, or citrus greening) disease has all but wiped out the Cuban citrus industry. HLB also had a very destructive impact on the Florida citrus industry but researchers in Florida and Cuba, and throughout the world, have much to learn from each other on how to try to eliminate or at least control this devastating disease. The individual in the center of the phot in the white shirt is Dr. Jonathan Crane from the UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center in Homestead, Florida. Photograph by Fred Royce. Guest curators Fred Royce and William Messina.
