The need for pathogen free propagative budwood for the production of healthy, certified trees is recognised as basic requirement for the establishment and the future of a viable citrus industry. In central India every year millions of citrus plants are multiplied and supplied all over India without any certification for quality and diseases. Lack of elite, planting material and inadvertent multiplication of diseases (Virus, virus like and bacteria) through nursery stock are considered as major reasons for low productivity and less longevity of orchards.
The average life span of citrus orchards in tropical countries is less than ten years, because of these diseases. The situation warrants for a modern technique or biotech break on which the foundation of the future citrus industry can be banked on. The ICAR-CCRI, Nagpur (Erst while NRCC has evolved the complete protocol for production and multiplication of disease free planting stock through STG, which is comparable to the citrus sanitation programme of advanced citrus growing countries viz. Spain, Brazil, and USA. In this paper present status of the Citrus disease free planting material production and release program based on STG in central India was described.
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