By Robin Koestoyo FORT PIERCE, Fla. --- The 21st century ushered in the sustainability era as scientists reported the effects of climate change with greater emphasis and as sea levels began an unprecedented rise. To lead southeastern Florida ... READ MORE
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By Robin Koestoyo FORT PIERCE, Fla.-- 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 peel on Florida’s signature citrus crop. Jessamyn ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease
By Robin Koestoyo FORT PIERCE, Fla.--- An agricultural engineer whose current research projects include the simulation of agricultural management impacts on water quantity and quality in the upper Floridan aquifer has joined the University ... READ MORE
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By Robin Koestoyo FORT PIERCE, Fla. --- Florida’s grapefruit industry, devastated by citrus greening, may find hope in four ½-acre white-mesh screenhouses in a research field in Fort Pierce thanks to a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department ... READ MORE
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Beginning this week, Florida citrus growers will have an updated resource to help them keep groves productive despite the ever-present threat of Huanglongbing, the bacterial malady also known as HLB or citrus greening disease. Experts ... READ MORE
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By Robin Koestoyo 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 ... READ MORE
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- UF/IFAS Extension St Lucie County and the UF/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center are teaming up with the UF/IFAS Extension Leon County and Florida A&M for the Air Potato Challenge from 9 a.m. to noon on ... READ MORE
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By Robin Koestoyo FORT PIERCE, Fla.--- An inventive fruit tree researcher has joined the University of Florida IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center. Lorenzo Rossi is the center’s first-ever root biology professor and will support ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, Invasive Species, NATURAL RESOURCES, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Grapefruit grows better under screen houses than in unprotected groves because the indoor facilities keep out the insect that causes citrus greening, new University of Florida research shows. Protecting citrus from greening ... READ MORE
Category: UF/IFASBy Robin Koestoyo Media Contact: Beverly James, 352-273-3566, beverlymjames@ufl.edu FORT PIERCE, Fla.— University of Florida professor Zhenli He will receive an international honor for outstanding research contributions to his ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Crops, NATURAL RESOURCES, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research, Water