Scientific Discovery Gives New Hope for Citrus With HLB Tolerance

A trio of grants totaling more than $11 million helping scientists focus on instilling disease tolerance below ground and above ground.

What started out as a novel experiment to help protect young trees from the Asian citrus psyllid is proving fruitful.

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.

USDA’s initial citrus crop estimates indicate another season of well below-normal output; but there is some hope.

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

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.

Data coming in from experimental citrus blocks promising and set to advance.

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.

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.

Producers can and should take action now to protect their crops from any further damage.

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.

Growers on each coast remain vigilant in their fight to eradicate the Asian citrus psyllid and HLB.

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