5年前,当时还是得克萨斯州农工大学金斯维尔分校威斯拉科柑桔中心的一名植物病理学家的Mani Skaria教授,曾鼓励与他一起工作的柑桔种植者跳出固有思维模式,开展“甜橙革命”。他指出,包括外来病虫害、高地价和城镇化在内的太多因素正逐渐将经验丰富的柑桔种植户挤出这个行业,柑桔产业举步维艰,种植者们是时候改变传统栽培模式了。Skaria提倡种植户通过栽种结果快的微芽繁殖树并改用高密度种植模式,抢在果树感染致命病害前采用经济的栽培方式生产更多的水 Five years ago, Professor Mani Skaria, a plant pathologist at Texaslake Citrus Center at Texas A & M University in Kingsville, at the time, encouraged citrus growers who worked with him to jump out of their way of thinking “Sweet orange revolution ”. He pointed out that too many factors, including exotic pests and diseases, high land prices and urbanization, are gradually squeezing out seasoned citrus growers out of the industry and the citrus industry is struggling and growers are changing their traditional cultivation patterns. Skaria encourages growers to produce more water economically by cultivating fast-growing mini-bud reproductive trees and switching to high-density farming, before the deadly disease in fruit trees