Florida-based biotech company Soilcea developed CarriCea T1, a Carrizo orange variety that is resistant to HLB, also known as ...

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For several years now, citrus greening has been decimating residential citrus in Northeast Florida. Previous recommendations were to either remove the tree, or limp along until the fruit became ...

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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.' ...

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The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to reduce dissolved sugar content requirements in orange juice amid U.S. growers' ongoing struggles with citrus greening disease. The agency is ...

DADE CITY, Fla. — As the sun goes down on Greg Gude's kumquat trees, he knows he'll be up late checking if temperatures go below freezing at his farm outside Dade City. “Within 3 days after you've had ...

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Citrus greening disease is one of the most destructive plant diseases in modern agriculture, causing billions of dollars in losses annually. The disease, primarily triggered by the bacterium ...

USDA-APHIS is expanding the area quarantined for citrus greening in parts of southern California. Find out which counties are affected.