Antonio Juliano Ayres Presentation to BOD 2-3-13
Transcript of Antonio Juliano Ayres Presentation to BOD 2-3-13
THE EXPERIENCE OF HLB MANAGEMENT IN BRAZIL
“FLORIDA CITRUS MUTUAL”
Antonio Juliano Ayres Fundecitrus Nelson wulff Silvio Lopes
Renato Bassanezi Marcelo Miranda
• Citriculture in Brazil
• HLB: History and Current Status
• Factors that Affect the Success of HLB Management
• Nutritional Program: A Beginning
• Research Priorities
• Citriculture Perspectives
80% of the Brazilian production
Citriculture in Brazil and in São Paulo State
78% without irrigation
95% are sweet oranges (mainly for juice) Varieties: Pera, Valencia, Natal, Hamlin …. Rootstocks: Rangpur, Swingle, Sunki, Cleopatra ….
230,000 direct jobs
CHALLENGES ...
The Big Five from Africa
The King of the Five!
The Big Ones in Brazil !
CVC: 38% trees Canker: 1.39% blocks
Leprosis: 26% trees Black Spot: 51% trees
HLB: The King of the Big Five!
HLB in the world in 2003
Diaphorina citri in Brazil : first report in 1942
Costa Lima
HLB in the world in 2004
Symptomatic trees were found in Araraquara in March 2004
July 2004: Candidatus Liberibacter
asiaticus (Las) was detected
A new liberibacter was identified: Candidatus Liberibacter americanus (Lam)
Symptoms on Young Trees
Symptoms on Old Trees
Ca. L. americanus More severe symptoms Higher titers
Ca. L. asiaticus Less severe symptoms Lower titers
Ca. Liberibacter americanus and Ca. L. asiaticus found in Murraya exotica (2005)
Teixeira et al.2009, Wulff et al 2008
PCR with primers specific
for Ca. L. asiaticus or
Ca. L. americanus
PCR with primers specific for Phytoplasma of group 16Sr 9
2007: A phytoplasm was found in trees with HLB symptoms but negative for all Liberibacters
Origin of the phytoplasm : Crotalaria juncea - cover crop (December 2008)
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Fundecitrus HLB laboratory (n = 58.087):
Evolution of Lam, Las and the phytoplasma from field samples.
Survey HLB management by the TPS Communication program Research Mandatory tree elimination
HLB Mitigation: Main actions
Fundecitrus trained 8,000 inspectors for identification of HLB-affected trees
HLB-affected Trees eliminated:
≥20 million in 8 years
HLB in 2008
% of HLB-affected trees
HLB in 2012
% of HLB-affected trees
64,1
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% a
ffec
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HLB Progress in Sao Paulo State - % affected blocks -
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HLB progress in Sao Paulo - % symptomatic trees -
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CENTER EST SOUTH WEST NORTH NORTHWEST
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Source: Fundecitrus
West 1.4%
Northwest 0.3%
North 1.8%
Center 9.9%
South 0.8%
Est 14.8%
HLB incidence by region in Sao Paulo State
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<10 10 to 50 50 to 100 100 to 300 300 to 500 >500Number of trees in the grove (x 1,000)
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Source: Fundecitrus
Incidence of HLB-affected trees by grove size
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Regional TPS !
SP - 290 municipalities PR - 83 municipalities MG - 9 municipalities
Insecticide treatments Elimination of symptomatic trees
Healthy young trees from covered, insect-free nurseries
HLB Management
Mandatory covered
Nurseries since 2003
150 million young trees produced in the last 10 years in Brazil
Platform Inspection
New Platform: Better view and labor conditions
Research Project: UFSCAR, Citrosuco e Fundecitrus
Insecticide applications
Positive factors that support HLB control
• Covered nurseries since 2003 • Experience with CVC management and
canker “eradication” • Low HLB incidence: > 93% trees are healthy • Lessons on HLB management from many
growers
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Farm 17 (262,269 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 38.47
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Farm 18 (413,108 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 40.12
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6.77%
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16.80%
Farms without HLB management
located near farms without HLB management
Farms with HLB management near farm without HLB management
Large farm and/or
Adult trees
Small farm and/or
Young trees
Farm with HLB management far
from farm without HLB management
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Farm 1 (1,349,000 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 0.13
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Farm 6 (1,880,000 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 2.39
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1.56%
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Farm 7 (449,655 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 3.33
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Farm 11 (260,198 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 4.54
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Farm 15 (165,069 trees)Cumulated % from 2004 to 2008: 8.42
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1.95%
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Study of cases
Main factors associated with the success of HLB management by the TPS
Main factors for the success of the HLB management
1) Incidence of the disease at the moment when management was initiated 2) Age of the trees 3) Period of time during which the control measures have been applied 4) Size of the grove 5) Distance from groves without control measures 6) Number of sprays per year 7) Number of inspection per year
Incidence of HLB in the first year of control
Range: 0 to 17.6%
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HLB incidence at the moment management was started
Size of the grove
Range: 240 to 10,000 ha
72,000 a 3,000,000 trees
Distance from neighboring groves without HLB management
Range: 0 to 5 km
Yearly HLB control program
Inspection Spray Drench Soil Airplane Total cost
US$/ha 4 inspections
5 ground sprays 1 systemic
6 inspections
10 ground sprays 2 systemic 1 airplane
12 inspections
15 ground sprays 3 systemic 2 airplanes
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Costs of management programs
Strategies to maintain high productivity inspite of HLB
• Establishment of groves on large surfaces with high tree density
• Appropriate nutritional and irrigation practices
• More intense efforts on grove borders for psyllid control • Regional HLB management, in particular for the smaller farms
Establishment of groves on large surfaces with high tree densities
Removal of blocks highly affected by HLB
Renovation on large surfaces NEVER BLOCK BY BLOCK !!!
More intense efforts for psyllid control on the grove borders
M.P.Miranda
More intense effort in the borders of the groves
D. citri distribution in groves
Wide-area application at the key moment.
HLB Management
Psyllid bio-control: in urban area
and/or abandoned groves?
Colaboration ESALQ - FUNDECITRUS
Greenhouse for multiplication of D. citri
ESALQ
Laboratory for multiplication of T. radiata
ESALQ
400 parasitoids/ha in 4 different sites
Release in the Field
Reduction of D. citri population
Increased parasitism by T. radiata
Getulina
Pirajuí
Cajobi
Rincão
Mogi Mirim
Tatuí
Itapetininga
3.0x
62,3%
2.6x
86,2%
3.4x
53,3%
10.8x
93,0%
5,3x
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2,5x
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7,9x
51,5%
Votuporanga
Release areas of T. radiata
Source: Parra
Nutritional Treatments in an HLB-
affected grove
Scientific Team: D. Mattos Jr., J. A. Quaggio (IAC) J. M. Bové (INRA) R. Bassanezi, A. J. Ayres (Fundecitrus)
Nutritional Treatments in an HLB-affected grove
• Valencia/Rangpur planted in 2002. No Irrigation.
• HLB incidence at start of experiment : 1.8 % (Dec. 2010)
• 4 Randomized Blocks, 3 with psyllid control and 1 without
• 8 Treatments:
T0 = NPK T4 = T1+H3PO3 T1 = NPK+Micro(IAC) T5 = T1+AS T2 = T1+KNO3 T6 = T1+KNO3+Micro2+H3PO3+AS T3 = T1+Micro2 T7 = NPK + “Cocktail”
• Plots: 8 rows x 160 plants = 1280 pl./plot
• Nutritional sprays( 4 times per year):
– 1st Year: Dec/10, Jan/11, Mar/11 and Apr/11 – 2nd Year: Nov/11, Dec/11, Jan/12 and Feb/12
Progress of HLB Incidence from 1.8 % in Dec. 2010 to 10.5 % in June 2012 !
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INCI
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Test-F were not significant for treatments
HLB incidence with and without psyllid control
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INC
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With: 8.5 %
Without:17.5%
Healthy Tree with the Complete Nutritional
Treatment: Oct. 2012
HLB Symptomatic Tree with the Complete Nutritional
Treatment: Oct. 2012
1st year yield - 2011 (kg/tree) Mean of 4 plots (20 symptomatic and 20 asymptomatic trees per plot)
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Treatments
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15% REDUCTION
2nd Year Yield - 2012 (kg/tree) Mean of 4 plots (20 symptomatic and 20 asymptomatic trees per plot)
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Treatments
Yiel
d (k
g/tr
ee)
DiseasedHealthy
a a a a a a a a
b b b b b b b b
Different letters differed by Tukey test (P<0.01)
44% REDUCTION
Research Priorities
• Inspection Improvement • Systemic insecticides • Low-volume applications • Entomopathogenic fungi • Pheromones • Towards Genetically Modified Citrus
Trees Resistant to HLB
Controled Greenhouse
Biotecnology Lab
Laboratory for Volatiles Studies
Perspectives for the São Paulo State Citriculture
• North, Northwest, West and South regions are less affected regions and are eligible for HLB management by the TPS
• Regional HLB managment by the TPS should be extended
On the long term, the Paulista citrus industry will depend not only on genetically modified citrus (GMC) trees, but also on regular, non-GMC trees from large areas where HLB is well under control !
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