GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- International researchers, including ones at the University of Florida and Florida State University, are sharing in a $4 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to attack the problem of citrus greening, ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchLAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- In the next three months, Florida citrus growers will have to decide whether to extend for another six years the citrus box tax, the proceeds of which help to pay for citrus greening research at the University of Florida’s ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchLAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- Researchers with the University of Florida and several other institutions have found a way in laboratory tests to use 200 times less insecticide and yet still kill as many insects that carry the devastating citrus greening ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchGAINESVILLE, Fla. --- What’s a little pesticide among neighbors? For Florida citrus growers, it could mean saving their trees that are under attack from the virulent citrus greening bacterium threatening to destroy the state’s $10.7 billion ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchAs citrus greening continues to impact Florida’s groves, growers have found that they need a way to quickly and accurately count the amount of fruit dropped early to help identify problem areas, which will save time and money. University ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFASLAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- The disease that threatens to destroy Florida's $10.7 billion citrus industry appears to have its own mechanism to promote its spread, making it harder to control. A recent study by five University of Florida researchers ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchGAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Florida has nearly 70 million citrus trees on more than 531,500 acres. Now imagine trying to figure out what pesticide to spray on each of those trees to keep them safe from citrus greening. University of Florida researcher ... READ MORE
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Oranges are so closely associated with the State of Florida that it seems like they’ve always grown here in abundance. But in fact, citrus trees are not native to Florida, and the state’s $9 billion a year citrus industry is the product ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFAS Communications, UF/IFAS ExtensionGAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Foundation today announced a second gift of $1.5 million from The Coca-Cola Co. in support of long-term research aimed at preventing a widespread disease that affects crops in Florida’s $9 ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS ResearchGAINESVILLE, Fla. – A University of Florida research team is cautiously optimistic after finding a possible treatment in the lab for citrus greening, a disease devastating Florida’s $9 billion citrus industry. It is the first step in a ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research