Tag: citrus greening

Researchers explore breakthrough approach to combat devasting citrus greening disease

by Brad Buck
January 8, 2025

Scientists at the University of Florida are testing a new type of citrus tree that can fight off the tiny insects responsible for citrus greening. While the genetically modified tree has only been tested so far in the lab and the greenhouse, ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Bacillus Thuringiensis, Bacterium, Biotechnology, Bryony Bonning, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Citrus Trees, Entomology And Nematology, Field, Greenhouse, Hlb, Huanglongbing, Lab, Lukasz Stelinski, Pest Control, Phloem, Protein, Psyllids

UF awarded $5 million in NIFA grants to battle citrus greening disease

by Brad Buck
October 24, 2023

University of Florida scientists will elevate their efforts to control citrus greening, with about $5 million in grants from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). NIFA, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, split funding ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Amit Levy, Asian Citrus Psyllid, Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Entomology, Hlb, Horticultural Sciences, Huanglongbing, Integrated Pest Management, John Chater, Jose Chaparro, Lukasz Stelinski, Microbiology And Cell Science, Microcell, Nian Wang, Nifa, Plant Pathology, UF/IFAS Citrus Research And Education Center, USDA-NIFA

Data from two new UF/IFAS citrus varieties experiments advances

by Brad Buck
May 17, 2023

By ROBIN KOESTOYO FORT PIERCE, Fla.--- Citrus growers in Florida’s “River” production region along the Indian River Lagoon develop unsurpassed flavor and texture in a fresh grapefruit product coveted worldwide. Growers in the area ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Greening, Flavia Zambon, Grapefruit, Hlb, Indian River Research And Education Center, Mark Ritenour, Millennium Block, Research, Ronald D. Cave, Rootstocks, Scions

Researchers make progress on breeding citrus canker-resistant plants; discovery may lead to breeding citrus greening-resistant trees

by Ruth Hohl Borger
September 21, 2022

BALM, Fla. – A promising method to support the development of citrus varieties that are resistant to deadly diseases is the advancement of gene editing. By “knocking out” genes within the plant that are susceptible to the pathogen that ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Canker, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Fred Gmitter, Gene Editing, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Hlb, Resistance, Ruth-borger.borger, Zhanao Deng

UF research: Mesh covers protect citrus trees from psyllids that transmit greening disease

by Brad Buck
November 30, 2021

IMMOKALEE, Fla. --- About four years ago, Fernando Alferez started to test if citrus trees grown inside a protective mesh cover could be kept safe from the potential deadly Asian citrus psyllid. The psyllid, a bug the size of a pin, injects ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research, Citrus Trees, Fernando Alferez, Horticultural Sciences, Individual Protective Covers, Mesh, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center

Open House and Field Day Planned for UF Citrus Research and Education Center November 16

by Ruth Hohl Borger
October 13, 2021

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences citrus faculty have worked earnestly to find workable tactics for growers to use in their operations to fight Huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease. ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE
Tags: Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Fruit Drop, Hlb, Individual Protective Covers, Irrigation, Kaolin, Nutrition, Open House And Field Day

Fungal pathogen effective control for insect associated with citrus greening

by BLOGS.IFAS
October 5, 2021

By ROBIN KOESTOYO FORT PIERCE, Fla.--- The Asian citrus psyllid transmits the bacterium associated with the most serious citrus disease worldwide -- and now it has a formidable enemy in a fungal pathogen. The disease is citrus greening---the ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus Greening, Cordyceps Javanica, Fungus, Indian River Research And Education Center, Insecticides, Integrated Pest Management, Pasco Avery

UF/IFAS research receives $155.6 M in latest fiscal year

by Kirsten Romaguera Rabin
August 6, 2021

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The University of Florida boasted its second-best research funding awards over the fiscal year 2021, with UF/IFAS researchers receiving $155.6 million of the $861 million university total. The UF/IFAS funding, a 10% increase ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Adegbola Adesogan, Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Ali Sarkhosh, Animal Sciences Department, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research And Education Center, Feed The Future Innovation Lab For Livestock Systems, Food Science And Human Nutrition, Grants, Horticultural Sciences Department, J. Scott Angle, Michelle Danyluk, Research, Research Funding, Robert Gilbert, Scott Angle, Ziwen Yu

Back to the Future: Citrus breeders look to ancient varieties for modern-day answers

by Ruth Hohl Borger
July 26, 2021

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. --- In the ongoing race to find a solution to the devastating citrus greening disease, University of Florida scientists may find the path to the future by looking to the past. In a new study, published in Nature Communications, ... READ MORE

Category: Crops, Pests & Disease
Tags: Ancestral Lineages, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, East Asia, Fred Gmitter, Genetics, Genomes, Japan, Joint Genome Institute, Mandarin, Ryuku Islands

University of Florida researchers discover new way to potentially control citrus greening

by BLOGS.IFAS
March 16, 2021

By RUTH BORGER LAKE ALFRED, FLA-- University of Florida researchers have discovered another key resource in their ongoing pursuit to find solutions to fight Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening disease. The discovery brings the potential ... READ MORE

Category: AGRICULTURE, Pests & Disease
Tags: Asian Citrus Psyllid, Citrus, Citrus Greening, Citrus Research, Citrus Research And Education Center, Entomology And Nematology, Gene Silencing, Genes, Huanglongbing, Kirsten Pelz-Stelinski, National Institute Of Food And Agriculture, Psyllid Management, Single-stranded Nucleic Acids

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