Objectives

Overall: The overall grant objective is focused on culturing Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus (Las) with direct applications expected in Huanglongbing (HLB) control and detection/ diagnostics.

Objective 1: Concerted, parallel and coordinated efforts towards obtaining viable Las and/or Lca cultures (Castañeda, Davis, De La Fuente, Duan and Killiny).

Objective 2: Define the influence of physical environment in Las culturability (De La Fuente & Ma).

Objective 3: Define the role of chemical signaling and co‐factors in culturability of Las and/or Lca (Davis, De La Fuente, Gabriel & Killiny).

Objective 4: Concerted, parallel and coordinated efforts towards obtaining viable Las and/or Lca cultures (Castañeda, Davis, De La Fuente, Duan and Killiny).

Objective 5: Outreach (Alabi, Roberts, Vidalakis).