Among top goals for the new research center is to find citrus varieties that can tolerate or even resist citrus greening disease.

$5 million in funding from USDA to help fuel latest efforts to thwart devastating citrus disease and its vector.

Crop estimates drop as reports indicate some growers have experienced exterior scarring on as much as 80% of fruit.

Learn more about a ‘devastating’ find in the heart of a citrus-growing area that is currently and historically important for lemon production.

Learn more about the antimicrobial-based system that suppresses the deadly pathogen that has sucked the life from Florida’s citrus sector.

New study says research partners have found a faster, safer, and less expensive way for growers to detect the invasive pest.

Learn more about a new biological technology that develops and multiplies disease-resistant citrus plants using “hairy roots.”

The era of HLB has some thinking about alternative crops.

What was forecast to be a campaign of struggle for orange and grapefruit growers, turned out to be just that. Check out the final tallies.

American Vegetable Grower Editor Carol Miller says we’ll likely view the pandemic as not only a time of chaos but also when medical science surged.

A tiny piece of the antibody cells found in the camelid animal family could interfere with just about any cellular organism, including bacteria and viruses.

USDA awards major organic research grant to identify solutions for citrus greening.

Research paper digs into the bacteria’s complex relationship with the tree defense system.

University of Florida scientists secure more than $16 million in new funding to advance projects concerning the deadly disease.

Discovery using genetic editing for one malady could lead to possible plant breeding solutions for citrus greening, too.

Video by University of Florida researchers examines ways this specialty plant growth regulator treatment is best used to combat HLB and fight fruit drop.

Scientists find bacterial cousin in the Liberibacter family also might be infectious to other plants and crops.

USDA-APHIS increases and establishes HLB quarantine areas. Find out where.

USDA APHIS officials confirm case of serious crop malady in commercial citrus grove.