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Citrus Black Spot: No Longer an Exotic Disease 1

Megan Dewdney and Jamie Yates2

Citrus black spot is an emerging fungal disease that affects Florida citrus. Various symptom types occur about a month before harvest. Black spot has the potential to cause major economic damage to the fresh fruit industry and significant yield loss on processing varieties.The document can be downloaded by clicking the PDF icon in the top left corner.

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This document is PP281, one of a series of the Plant Pathology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date February 2011. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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Megan Dewdney, assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology, and Jamie Yates, coordinator, Canker, HLB and Exotic Disease Extension Education, Citrus REC, Lake Alfred, Florida; Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL 32611

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

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.