Citrus greening is a disease with no known cure that has infected nearly every citrus grove. It first cropped up 20 years ago ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency didn’t follow the law when it approved spraying the antibiotic streptomycin on citrus crops to control devastating diseases like citrus greening, a federal ...

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A new multi-institutional study will develop and evaluate systems that deliver treatments to trees affected by citrus greening disease.

Recently, a few antibiotic-based products were approved for emergency use in citrus in Florida and gave some reprieve to growers, but more sustainable products are needed to stop citrus greening ...

Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study shows. We found the ...

Eleven years after a disease that kills citrus trees was discovered in Southern California, the number of infections is rising — but experts and researchers are still fighting it. In Southern ...

But the real kicker here is citrus greening, a disease wreaking havoc on orange trees worldwide.Thanks to these pesky Asian ...

Huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, ... The peptide is also more resistant to California’s heat than antibiotic treatments currently in use, ...