South Texas residents are urged to inspect fruit trees for invasive fruit flies and report findings to local agriculture ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was almost a year ago that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal ...

Growers have also battled citrus canker, a disease that creates small lesions on the fruit and results in fruit falling earlier from the tree. State officials have spent more than $45 million on ...

Thoughtful investments in research and new technologies offer renewed hope for the future of Florida’s signature crop.

In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Ye Jian from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese ...

One solution could involve using dogs to detect the disease early. In one experiment, researchers trained a team of dogs to detect citrus greening and citrus canker, another plant disease.

They can also identify crop diseases such as citrus canker, plum poxvirus, and citrus greening by sniffing out odors emitted by infected plants. This allows farmers to take action before the disease ...