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Citrus certification in Mediterranean countries 1
Author(s) -
NAVARRO L.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1986.tb00273.x
Subject(s) - certification , quarantine , mediterranean climate , sowing , business , agroforestry , environmental protection , geography , biology , horticulture , political science , law , ecology , archaeology
Citrus suffers severe losses from virus and similar diseases, which are mainly spread by grafts, stocks and scions. This planting material needs to be made virus‐free throughout the Mediterreanean region. The standards published by EPPO in 1980 remain valid for this purpose: they provide techniques for elimination of the viruses and for protecting healthy material from reinfection. The actual situation in individual Mediterranean countries is reviewed, especially with regard to certification programmes (still not started in several cases). Healthy planting material of certain cultivars can be obtained on the international market, but this is not true of local cultivars which also need to be certified. In any case, the import of planting material carries the risk of introducing diseases not yet present in the Mediterranean region, so that strict quarantine procedures are needed.