A New Technology Is Helping To Save The Florida Citrus Industry With A “Shot In The Arm”
A grove of healthy orange trees. Unfortunately this is becoming a rare example in Florida because of … (+)
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the familiar idiom, “a shot in the arm” as “something that has a sudden, strong, positive effect on something.” It apparently came into popular language as early as 1916, long before the connection between a “shot” became the delivery method for immunization with the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955. Putting aside the political controversies that have recently risen around getting an injection to prevent COVID infection, there are many beneficial human health therapies that are delivered through an injection (antibiotics, pain medications, cortisone…). There are also reasons that plants can benefit from “getting a shot,” but that has been difficult to do.
Plants get sick too, but unlike humans most of their diseases are caused by fungi
