Even though almost all of Florida’s citrus trees are now affected by citrus greening, a disease that has compromised the state’s most valuable crop, growers and scientists are working to slow the disease and produce healthy fruit on… Read More
Philippines Fulbright Scholar Finds Lady Bugs Will Control Florida Red Scale Pest Insects A Fulbright Scholar from the Philippines has found that lady beetles will attack and control the Florida red scale, a pest insect that damages the… Read More
David Calvert, a resourceful soil scientist, who was regaled as the Indian River District’s lead citrus production scientist and spearheaded pioneer investigations to evaluate the environmental interface between agriculture and soils, has died, according to a family spokesperson…. Read More
A native of Malawi, 25-year-old Mika Mzumara is banking skills to help African farmers increase their income with smart production and marketing. This year Mzumara will serve an internship directed by Lorenzo Rossi, a plant root biologist at… Read More
Liliana Cano, assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC) in Fort Pierce, is offering a new undergraduate level course, “Survey of Plant Pathogens,” or PLP 3230. The course will take place… Read More
It all started with the Four O’clock flowers young Egem Özbudak would study as a toddler growing up in Izmir, Turkey. The bursts of velvety purple and periwinkle-colored flowers studded with long red asterisks or yellow buttons in… Read More
Paul LaFreniere envisions high value niche crops and fish in his plans for agricultural entrepreneurship. He says the key to sustainable food production is for growers to understand plant pathology. A Jupiter native and University of Florida undergraduate,… Read More
While she was a graduate student at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Sasha-Kay Clarke and her adviser, Dr. Sherline Brown, were hopeful they would find a research scientist who would accept Clarke as a visiting… Read More
FORT PIERCE, Fla.– Fighting plant disease with jet blast sprays is standard practice for citrus growers. But, to spray a fungus to control a single insect that carries a disease-causing pathogen is uncommon. University of Florida Institute of… Read More
Ricardo Lesmes-Vesga left his native village in the Colombian Andes Mountains region to pursue higher education in protected agriculture and citrus advanced production systems. In only a few years, he will have achieved the highest degree education can… Read More
