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US 11,985,951 B2Granted
Citrus greening resistant orange trees and related methods thereof
AssigneeRandy Wayne White
InventorRandy Wayne White
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Abstract
A composite orange tree having a fruiting cultivar scion grafted to a citrus-greening resistant, or a salinity-resistant rootstock, or a rootstock having both citrus-greening and salinity resistance, is described herein, as are methods of growing such a composite orange tree.
Claims18
A composite citrus tree comprising a fruiting cultivar scion grafted to a wild rootstock,
- wherein the wild rootstock is (a) obtained from a seed deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-124301 or (b) obtained from tissues of a plant grown from the seed deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-124301,
- wherein the composite citrus tree is resistant to citrus-greening and water having elevated levels of salt content of 50 ppm to 50,000 ppm, and
- wherein the composite citrus tree yields commercially viable fruit following exposure to a citrus greening disease and either coastal flood water or brackish groundwater.
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