Disease has ravaged crops, resulting in a 95% drop in production.
On a farm in Hardee County, a skid steer pushes dead citrus trees into piles. A machine called the Tigercat 6040 burns them at high heat and out the back comes biochar, a black, charcoal-like ...
Recent EPA approval clears way for company to supply more than 300,000 citrus trees using CarriCea T1, an HLB-resistant ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (RFD News) — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says a newly approved rootstock could offer Florida citrus growers another tool in the fight against citrus greening disease.
Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now present in all 34 Floridian citrus-producing ...
Researchers are turning to a plant’s own microbiome to fight the destruction of citrus greening on Florida’s citrus trees. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded FIU scientists $500,000 to ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of CarriCea T1, a biotechnology-developed citrus rootstock designed to help manage citrus greening in Florida. Citrus greening is a ...
Florida’s grapefruit growers, devastated by the citrus greening disease, might get some hope from four half-acre, white screenhouses in a research field. Inside the screens, 512 young “Ray Ruby” ...
New research shows that trunk-injected oxytetracycline reduces the Huanglongbing pathogen in citrus while reshaping the leaf ...
A citrus greening disease treatment rooted in more than a decade of research at Texas A&M AgriLife Research has reached a milestone on the path to commercial availability. The U.S. Environmental ...