That's why Coca-Cola and MIT are kicking off "Save the Orange," a global initiative uniting growers, researchers, and ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. — With a name like Kyle Story, he’s bound to have all sorts of tales. His tale begins in the 1930s when his family first planted citrus. It would eventually bloom into the thousands ...

The Treasure Coast once was the top producer of grapefruit in the world. Florida now produces less than one-tenth of the citrus it did before citrus greening was discovered. The bacterial disease is ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — A bacterial disease called 'citrus greening' has long devastated fields of oranges and grapefruits across the Sunshine State, including on the Treasure Coast. Travis Murphy ...

Asian citrus psyllids transmit citrus greening, a disease that can devastate citrus groves. New work by scientists in Brazil and at UC Davis shows that the citrus greening bacteria interfere with the ...

Most people know Florida’s citrus industry is struggling with citrus greening. The threat, however, doesn’t exist in a silo, and residential trees – where the plant disease was first detected in the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Q. What are the current rules about moving citrus to prevent the spread of HLB or citrus greening disease? Where can I find the most up-to-date quarantine maps? Citrus greening disease, also known as ...

Life might be trying to take its lemons back. Over the past few decades, citrus trees across the country have fallen victim to citrus greening, a disease that has wiped out large swaths of Florida’s ...