CANBERRA: The potentially devastating citrus canker plant disease has officially been eradicated from Australia. Citrus canker damages citrus fruit it infects and causes unripe fruit to fall to the ground.
The disease was found in Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory (NT), in April 2018, 14 years after Australia’s last outbreak in Queensland where it destroyed 500,000 citrus trees.
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