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Packinghouse Citrus Black Spot ID / Identificación de la Mancha Negrade los Cítricos en las Plantas de Procesamiento1

Mark Ritenour, Megan Dewdney, Natalia Peres, and Jamie Yates2

This one-page identification sheet is designed to assist packinghouse graders in the detection of citrus black spot.

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Citrus black spot symptoms have many forms, such as hard spot, cracked spot, false melanose, and virulent spot. / La mancha negra de los cítricos presenta muchos tipos de síntomas tales como, manchas o puntos duros, manchas o puntos agrietados, manchas o puntos de falsa melanosis y manchas o puntos virulentos.


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Footnotes

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This document is HS1184, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date August 2010. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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Mark Ritenour, associate professor, Department of Horticultural Science, Indian River REC, Ft. Pierce, Florida; Megan M. Dewdney, assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus REC, Lake Alfred, Florida; Natalia A. Peres, assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Gulf Coast REC, Balm, Florida; and Jamie Yates, coordinator, Canker, HLB and Exotic Diseases Extension Education, Citrus REC, Lake Alfred, Florida; Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL 32611.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, Dean.