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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Citrus canker, a federal and state regulated plant disease, has been detected in Baldwin and Mobile ...

Citrus canker, a federal and state regulated plant disease, has been detected in Baldwin and Mobile Counties. As required by ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A new effort to save citrus trees in Texas began in the Houston area today as an infection is threatening the citrus industry across the state. The infection is called citrus ...

An international team of scientists from Brazil and the United States have completed the draft genome sequences of two strains of the Xanthomonas bacteria that cause citrus canker. Citrus canker, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The check, finally, is in the mail for South Florida residents whose fruit trees were destroyed in the state’s failed campaign to wipe out citrus canker. This week, 84,000 homeowners in Broward 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 ...

It’s a cloudy Friday morning at Dick Spears’ southwest Orange County home in the upscale Bay Hill neighborhood. Rain drizzles into Spears’ swimming pool as he sits in his screened patio, surveying the ...