It’s called the Asian Citrus Psyllid Project (ACP). After the initial detection of a citrus-crop threatening pest in a Lemon Grove tree last September, dozens of state, county and federal employees ...

Routine inspections by California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) officials led to the discovery of a citrus disease in Ramona, resulting in a quarantine. Officials detected the fatal citrus ...

A genetic discovery by ARS and University of Florida scientists could speed the search for hybrid citrus trees that tolerate citrus greening disease and produce orange-like fruit ideal for making ...

Citrus is a staple crop of San Bernardino County, with a rich history that traces as far back as the 1800s. Unfortunately, this citrus heritage is under serious threat by an infectious disease called ...

RIVERSIDE — In a lab southeast of Los Angeles, researchers are opening a new front in the yearslong battle against a tiny pest that has wreaked havoc on citrus groves around the world and raised fear ...

VALLEY CENTER, Calif. (CNS) - The California Department of Food and Agriculture Thursday declared a new citrus quarantine in Valley Center after detecting the citrus tree disease known as ...

LA HABRA, Calif. (KABC) -- Inspectors from the California Department of Food and Agriculture were going home-to-home inspecting trees after a devastating citrus disease was detected in La Habra.

(Beyond Pesticides, April 11, 2024) Scientists are moving forward in testing an agroecological method of “push-pull” pest management (reducing the attractiveness of the target organism and luring pest ...

Scientists studied tolerance to huanglongbing under field conditions in trees of commercial citrus scion/rootstock combinations. All trees showed symptoms of HLB and tested positive for the Candidatus ...

Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening, is a phloem-restricted bacterial disease that threatens commercial and smallholder citrus production worldwide. The principal causal agent, Candidatus ...

Researchers evaluated the effects of huanglongbing (HLB) symptom severity on fruit detachment force and fruit mechanical properties in sweet oranges as indicators of potential HLB-influenced ...