California farmers and scientists race to combat a citrus disease ...

One of the more controversial therapies for HLB involves spraying or injecting citrus trees with oxytetracycline or streptomycin, bactericides ...

UC Riverside scientists fight citrus greening disease by breeding ...

Tucked behind twists and turns of dusty roads and acres of groves at UC Riverside's agriculture research station are hybrid trees with ...

Pam Marrone on LinkedIn: California farmers and scientists race to ...

California farmers and scientists race to combat a citrus disease infecting trees - Los Angeles Times https://lnkd.in/gisn6zV #HLB Please learn the lessons…

New California lab seeks cure to deadly citrus disease - Phys.org

Growers in California—which supplies more than 80 percent of the country's fresh citrus—also have been working to stave off the threat. Farmers ...

California Citrus Greening Disease Progression - MitoGrow

Agricultural leaders and California officials came together early on to try and prevent the devastation that had occurred in Florida, in California's citrus ...

The Race to Stop a Citrus Plague | American Scientist

On a larger scale, the Citrus Research Board has partnered with the USDA, California Department of Food and Agriculture, and the University of California to ...

UC Riverside discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying ...

... Citrus Greening Disease, which has devastated citrus farms in Florida and also threatens California ... Science Officer Gerardo Ramos ...

Incurable and deadly plant disease detected in Valley Center - CBS 8

The discovery has led the California Department of Food and Agriculture to issue a new citrus quarantine in Valley Center.

How California can reduce the threat posed by lethal citrus disease

Earlier this month, Ventura County and the state Department of Food and Agriculture established a five-mile quarantine zone around a residential ...

A Devastating Citrus Disease Finally Has A New Treatment - LAist

California farmers and scientists race to combat a citrus disease infecting trees (LA Times); California expands local quarantine to halt citrus ...

Why farmers and scientists are rushing to save citrus - CNN.com

The bug, an Asian citrus psyllid, was carrying citrus greening disease, otherwise known by its Chinese name, huanglongbing. The disease was first detected in ...

In the Noah's Ark of citrus, caretakers try to stave off a fruit apocalypse

Originating in China over a century ago and first spotted in California in 2012, the disease has ravaged citrus wherever it's appeared and ...

ACP? HLB? Haven't Heard? - Topics in Subtropics - ANR Blogs

Now researchers and farmers are racing to fend off the disease. This month, more than 500 scientists from around the world gathered in Riverside ...

New potential tools to fight citrus greening disease

Scientists at the University of California Riverside have made big strides this summer in the fight against huanglongbing, citrus greening ...

How This Disease Could Wipe Out Citrus...Unless We Stop It ... - PBS

Citrus trees are threatened by a devastating disease called Huanglongbing. In this episode of Hungry Planet, Niba visits Southern California.

Citrus Growers May Soon Have a New Way to Fight Back Against A ...

Citrus greening has decimated Florida's industry and the infection is spreading in California. But a novel treatment, still in the testing phase, may suppress ...

Citrus Disease Detection in San Diego County Prompts Quarantine

The California Department of Food and Agriculture declared a quarantine in parts of north San Diego County Thursday, after detecting a ...

Asian Citrus Psyllid - California Department of Food and Agriculture

Citrus greening disease was first detected in the United States in. Florida in 2005. It is found throughout Asia, the Indian subcontinent and neighboring ...

Fighting Bugs With Bugs: Hatching A Solution For Troubled Trees

The Asian citrus psyllid is a tiny bug that spreads a devastating tree disease. Pesticides can't always control it, so California farmers ...

Citrus disease could kill California industry if Congress slows ...

Congress is poised to continue spending $25 million a year into finding a way to stop citrus greening. But some on the farm bill conference ...