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ALT Fig. 2. Two-year-old, juvenile Ruby Red grapefruit on sour orange rootstock treated by trunk injection to alleviate huanglongbing (HLB) symptoms shows curry leaf extract performance is as good or better at alleviating foliar HLB symptoms under field conditions. Photos were taken with an iPhone 15 camera, standing in front of the tree in the middle of the row.
ALT Fig. 1. The “Grove-First” approach: Screening new HLB therapies in the grove.
ALT Fig. 2. The silencing suppressor capability of potato leafroll virus (PLRV) P0 wild type (wt), PLRV P0 mutants, and a panel of viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) transiently expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. The abaxial side of N. benthamiana leaves was co-inoculated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens vectors expressing the PLRV P0 wt construct, PLRV-P0 mutants, turnip crinkle virus (TCV) P38, cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) P0, tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) P19, and cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) 2b, together with Agrobacterium vectors expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) and double-stranded (ds)GFP, in a 1:1:1 ratio to evaluate the suppressor activity. For controls, N. benthamiana leaves were infiltrated with an Agrobacterium vector containing only GFP and with GFP and dsGFP in a 1:1 ratio. Photographs were taken at 3 days post-infiltration under a long-wavelength UV lamp.
