Gene editing offers farmers new tools to fight disease, improve livestock health and support sustainable food production.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For several years now, citrus greening has been decimating residential citrus in Northeast Florida. Previous recommendations were ...

Citrus greening, also known as huanglongbing or HLB, has been a devastating force for the Florida citrus industry, where growers have experienced production losses as high as 90% due to the disease, ...

A bacterial infection is wiping out Florida's citrus trees. Growers hope a rootstock developed with gene-editing technology ...

Soilcea's gene-edited rootstocks target citrus greening across the state while laying the groundwork for expansion into Texas and California.

Responding to a disease like citrus greening might feel futile, but there are examples of growers who are finding viable ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a $9 million research grant to the Citrus Research and Development Foundation in Lake Alfred in Central Florida to study citrus greening disease. The ...

"Polk County lost the most acreage, down 10,944 acres from the previous season." ...

Citrus productivity has gone down over the past ten years, mainly due to a deadly disease called citrus greening. Farmers have had it hard this past year. Heavy rain, dry weather and disease have all ...

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 ...

As the end of citrus season approaches here in the state of Florida, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated a record-low harvest. Compared to the previous growing season, the production of ...