About Auscitrus

The primary role of Auscitrus is to provide propagation material of the highest health status, of the best varieties available worldwide, to protect the health status of the Australian Citrus Industry.

Auscitrus will ensure adequate supplies of healthy, true to type, and independently evaluated propagation material are produced in a scientifically sound, efficient, and economically sustainable manner.

This will ensure nurseries have access to the best available propagation material, and in turn will provide the citrus industry with a greater opportunity of establishing healthy orchards.

Auscitrus operations include: .

	Budwood and rootstock seed production and distribution
	Pathogen indexing and elimination
	Maintenance of virus free and pre-immunised foundation trees in insect proof screenhouses
	Importation of new citrus cultivars
	Horticultural screening of new varieties