Abstract
Keynote Summary: Half a century on huanglongbing: learning about the disease, trying to control it
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Born in 1929 in Luxemburg from a family of horticulturists and myself a graduate of the School of Agronomy in Paris as well as a biologist of the University of Paris, I married in 1952 Colette Dumeau, a professor of Physics and Mathematics
Stubborn and HLB have similar symptoms, fruit symptoms in particular, and their agents were thought to be related. They were even thought to be different strains of the same virus! Why virus? Because only viruses where known in the late 1950s / early 1960s to be infectious agents of plants! after our return to France in 1959, we developed a virus laboratory to study Stubborn/HLB! Our laboratory was housed within the department of Georges Morel at the INRA Research Center in Versailles, where we stayed until our departure for Bordeaux in 1971
JM Bové / Journal of Citrus Pathology the true stubborn mycoplasma, lacking a cell wall and only surrounded by an approximately 7 nm thick cytoplasmic membrane, we discovered that the HLB bacteria had a cell envelope with a thickness of approximately 20 nm, indicating that they had a cell wall in addition to the cytoplasmic membrane
Summary
Born in 1929 in Luxemburg from a family of horticulturists and myself a graduate of the School of Agronomy in Paris as well as a biologist of the University of Paris, I married in 1952 Colette Dumeau, a professor of Physics and Mathematics. JM Bové / Journal of Citrus Pathology the true stubborn mycoplasma, lacking a cell wall and only surrounded by an approximately 7 nm thick cytoplasmic membrane, we discovered that the HLB bacteria had a cell envelope with a thickness of approximately 20 nm, indicating that they had a cell wall in addition to the cytoplasmic membrane.
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