huanglongbing

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huanglongbing

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From Mandarin 黃龍病／黄龙病 (huánglóngbìng), literally "yellow dragon disease".

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huanglongbing (uncountable)

1. A bacterial infection of citrus trees.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) HLB

   • 2013 March, Anna Kuchment, “The End of Orange Juice”, in Scientific American‎^[1], volume 308, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 54, columns 1, 2:

     Eventually Halbert got to the bottom of her list to the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world—huanglongbing, Chinese for “yellow dragon disease.”
     Huanglongbing, which is also called HLB or citrus greening, had been spreading slowly through India, China, Indonesia and South Africa.[...]
     Researchers began injecting antibiotics into tree trunks and looking for resistant genes to splice into orange trees. But huanglongbing continues to spread.

• citrus dieback
• citrus vein phloem degeneration
• CVPD
• citrus greening
• citrus greening disease
• immediate withering disease
• leaf mottle yellows
• likubin
• yellow shoot disease
• yellow dragon disease