A federally and state-regulated plant disease has been detected in Mobile County. According to a release from the Alabama ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRG) — A plant disease that presents a serious threat to the U.S. citrus industry has been detected in Baldwin County for the first time in Alabama. Federal and state plant health ...

A maker of biopesticides based in Columbia announced a new product aimed at fighting a bacterial disease that affects citrus plants. Certis USA LLC said its new product, AgriPhage Citrus Canker, is ...

LAKELAND - University of Florida researchers hope to use tiny microbes already in Florida citrus groves to fight citrus canker. Researchers will explore how to take what is already known about the way ...

Citrus canker, a serious disease for the fruit trees that appeared several years ago in the Houma-Thibodaux area, has been spreading in Louisiana, researchers say. It was recently found on trees in ...

(WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) is reporting citrus canker was recently detected at two nurseries, one in East Baton Rouge and one in Livingston Parish. LDAF ...

The check, finally, is in the mail for South Florida residents whose fruit trees were destroyed in the state’s failed campaign to wipe out citrus canker. This week, 84,000 homeowners in Broward and ...

When I started my horticultural career in New Orleans back in 1980, my memory of growing citrus seems so easy. White flies and other sucking insects and the sooty mold they caused were the only major ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A new effort to save citrus trees in Texas began in the Houston area today as an infection is threatening the citrus industry across the state. The infection is called citrus ...

Officials: Bacteria not harmful to humans or animals and fruit remains safe to eat. The state Department of Agriculture is warning citrus growers about a bacteria detected in a commercial grove in ...

A highly contagious bacterial disease harmful to most varieties of citrus plants has spread around Plaquemines Parish and is in two locations in St. John the Baptist Parish. Those areas are in the ...