University of Florida researchers are using a combination of individual protective covers and plant growth regulators to help ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRG) — A plant disease that presents a serious threat to the U.S. citrus industry has been detected in Baldwin County for the first time in Alabama. Federal and state plant health ...

The Top End's pomelo industry is worried about the impending importation of the citrus fruit from Vietnam. They say it will ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Citrus canker, a federal and state regulated plant disease, has been detected in Baldwin and Mobile Counties. As required by federal law, the Alabama Department of Agriculture and ...

A highly contagious bacterial disease harmful to most varieties of citrus plants has spread around Plaquemines Parish and is in two locations in St. John the Baptist Parish. Those areas are in the ...

When I started my horticultural career in New Orleans back in 1980, my memory of growing citrus seems so easy. White flies and other sucking insects and the sooty mold they caused were the only major ...

Officials: Bacteria not harmful to humans or animals and fruit remains safe to eat. The state Department of Agriculture is warning citrus growers about a bacteria detected in a commercial grove in ...

Lawyers for plaintiffs in Florida's citrus canker litigation are headed back to court after seeing Gov. Rick Scott's budget. Scott on Friday vetoed the Legislature's $37.4 million appropriation for ...

LAKELAND - University of Florida researchers hope to use tiny microbes already in Florida citrus groves to fight citrus canker. Researchers will explore how to take what is already known about the way ...

Four South Florida law firms are challenging Gov. Rick Scott in the state's highest court over his decision to hold back $37 million from homeowners whose citrus trees were removed a decade ago.