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Investigadores de UF/IFAS trabajan para prevenir una enfermedad que pone en riesgo su chocolate favorito

by Luz Bahder
February 13, 2025

Creado por Megan Winslow, especialista en relaciones públicas de UF/IFAS.  Mientras saborea un bombón o una fresa bañada en chocolate este día de San Valentín, piense en el fruto alargado y acanalado del árbol del cacao, el cual hace ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Crops, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Agricultores, Bombones De Chocolate, Cacao, CATIE, Centro Agronómico Tropical De Investigación Y Enseñanza, Chocolate, Chocolates, Costa Rica, Crecimiento Blanco Y Esponjoso, Destructor De Plantas, Dia De Los Enamorados, Dulces, Erica Goss, Espanol, Fitopatologia, Fruto Del Cacao, Genetica, Genética Tanto De Plantas Y Patógenos, Genoma, Ina Schlathoelter, Investigacion, Jeremy Brawner, Mariana Herrera Corzo, Mars, Materiales Vegetales, Mazorcas De Cacao, Modelo De Prediccion, Patogenos, Phytophthora, Phytophthora Megakarya, Podrición Negra Del Cacao, Productors, San Valentin, Spanish, Susceptibilidad Al Patógeno, Theobroma Cacao, UF/IFAS
Cacao pod researchers

UF/IFAS researchers work to prevent a disease threatening your favorite chocolate

by Megan Winslow
February 10, 2025

As you nibble on a chocolate truffle or bite into a chocolate-dipped strawberry on Valentine’s Day, consider the elongated, ribbed pods of the cacao tree, which made that sweet treat possible. A group of UF/IFAS plant pathologists has partnered ... READ MORE

Category: Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Africa, Black Bottom Rot, Black Pod Rot, Cacao, CATIE, Chocolate, Costa Rica, Disease, Erica Goss, Farming, IFAS, Inoculate, Institute Of Food And Agricultural Sciences, Jeremy Brawner, Lab, Lesion, Mariana Herrera Corzo, Mars, Megan Winslow, Phytophthora, Phytophthora Megakarya, Plant Pathology, Plant Pathology Department, Research, Tropical Agricultural Research And Higher Education Center, UF, UF/IFAS, University Of Florida, Valentine's Day

What Growers Can Do Post-Hurricane Ian to improve Groves

by Ruth Hohl Borger
October 4, 2022

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- Hurricane Ian’s impact on Florida’s citrus growers is still being assessed, but growers can take action now to protect their groves from further damage.  The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Fernando Alferez, Gibberellic Acid, Hurricane Ian, Mongi Zekri, Phytophthora, Tripti Vashisth

Wet ‘dry season’ damaged valuable ornamentals

by Brad Buck
March 22, 2017

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Florida’s winters are usually dry, but the wet winter of 2015-2016 helped spread pathogens that destroyed ornamental plants in Miami-Dade County. That’s a problem in an area where the industry generated an estimated ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Aaron Palmateer, Environmental Horticulture, Ornamentals, Phytophthora, Plant Pathology, Pythium, Tropical Research And Education Center

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