The long-struggling Florida citrus industry now faces an invasive species crisis, but researchers have a plan to fight back.

Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study shows. We found the trees ...

A genetically engineered tree holds promise to possibly save Florida's citrus industry from an insect that causes "greening disease." The Asian citrus psyllid has devastated the industry. Some Florida ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A citrus quarantine has been declared in Fallbrook after officials detected the presence of a citrus tree disease in a mandarin tree, adding to the quarantines already in ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (AP) — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad's 20-acre (8-hectare) grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story homes ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture issued a citrus quarantine this week for northern San Diego County and part of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The quarantine was issued after state ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — California agricultural officials have declared a new citrus quarantine in northern San Diego County, extending into part of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, after a deadly ...