{"id":277,"date":"2014-09-18T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/newsroom\/?post_type=fdoc-news-item&amp;p=277"},"modified":"2014-09-18T22:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:19:49","slug":"in-the-news-steam-treatment-helps-fight-greening","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/fdoc-news-item\/in-the-news-steam-treatment-helps-fight-greening\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Steam treatment helps fight greening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/sep\/18\/steam-being-used-to-kill-deadly-citrus-bacteria\/\">Associated Press<\/a>\u00a0reporter Tamara Lush highlights the work being done by a group of University of Florida researchers using steam to treat HLB-infected trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers\u00a0at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have tented and then enveloped trees in 136-degree steam for about 30 seconds in an attempt to kill citrus greening bacteria, Lush reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their findings will be presented at the International Citrus beverage Conference in Clearwater on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press\u00a0reporter Tamara Lush highlights the work being done by a group of University of Florida researchers using steam to treat HLB-infected trees. The researchers\u00a0at the Institute of Food and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","fdoc_news_item_category":[106],"fdoc_citrus_type":[110,107],"fdoc_health_category":[],"class_list":["post-277","fdoc-news-item","type-fdoc-news-item","status-publish","hentry","fdoc_news_item_category-citrus-greening","fdoc_citrus_type-grapefruit","fdoc_citrus_type-orange"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-news-item"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc_news_item_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_news_item_category?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_citrus_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_citrus_type?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"fdoc_health_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc_health_category?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}