Scientists at the University of Florida are testing a new type of citrus tree that can fight off the tiny insects responsible for citrus greening. It is one of the most promising discoveries to date ...

The long-struggling Florida citrus industry now faces an invasive species crisis, but researchers have a plan to fight back.

Most people know Florida’s citrus industry is struggling with citrus greening. The threat, however, doesn’t exist in a silo, and residential trees – where the plant disease was first detected in the ...

In a new strategy to combat citrus greening disease, scientists have engineered citrus trees to act as both bait and executioner for the insects that spread the disease. Using virus-induced gene ...

The deadly plant disease called citrus greening that appeared in the Rio Grande Valley last month has led to the destruction of 14 citrus trees as officials strive to control its spread. The Texas ...

For what’s believed to be the first time in Florida, customers can enter a citrus growing structure designed to prevent greening, the disease that has ravaged citrus trees in Florida for two decades.

On either side of a sandy dirt road, Valencia orange trees tower overhead with flecks of orange and yellow peeking through leafy green branches. Morgan McKenna Porter, 32, has spent her whole life in ...

Scientists at the University of Florida are testing a new type of citrus tree that can fight off the tiny insects responsible ...

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 ...

The Treasure Coast once was the top producer of grapefruit in the world. Florida now produces less than one-tenth of the citrus it did before citrus greening was discovered. The bacterial disease is ...

As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad's 20-acre (8-hectare) grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story homes encroaching on the orange ...