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Plant Doctor: Ep.1
The Yellow Dragon Looms
Over the Mediterranean

In China, they call it Huanglongbing—Yellow Dragon Disease. This deadly infection turns citrus leaves yellow and fruit inedible. It helped wipe out nearly 90% of Florida’s citrus production and led Brazil to cut down six million trees. Now it threatens the Mediterranean, which grows a third of the world’s citrus. Can it be stopped?