FORT MEADE, Fla. — Screen structures stretch for as far as the eye can see across a swath of land in Polk County. It's the newest and largest site where 'Citrus Under Protective Screen' or 'C.U.P.S.' ...

EPA has approved a gene-edited citrus rootstock designed to help protect trees from citrus greening disease, giving growers a ...

UF-IFAS experts say tropical fruit trees may be better suited to state's warming climate.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture issued a citrus quarantine this week for northern San Diego County and part of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The quarantine was issued after state ...

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Florida's citrus industry is in deep decline and growers are trying to hang on as they find ways to withstand disease and disasters.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture declared a new citrus quarantine in Ramona this week after two citrus trees in a residential area tested positive for Huanglongbing, a citrus greening ...

Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study shows. We found the trees ...

In a Central Florida field, out in the wind and the sun and near a pen holding baby goats, sit two symbols of Florida’s citrus industry. They were school buses in the 1970s and sometime later were ...

ARS scientists made a "sweet" discovery that may be important to solving a major problem within the citrus industry. Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening disease, poses a serious threat ...