The researchers have been experimenting with adding a gene usually found in a soil-borne bacterium into citrus trees. This gene enables the trees to produce a specific protein that kills baby ...

The Plant Protection Directorate has identified Citrus Tristeza Virus (CTV)-infected trees in the areas of Xagħra and along the Marsalforn route in Gozo. CTV is a viral disease that affects citrus ...

an entomology professor at the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences' Citrus Research and Education Center. It could be at least three years before bug-resistant trees ...

“At some point, this isn’t going to be an orange grove anymore,” Murphy, a third-generation grower, says as he gazes at the rows of trees in Lake ... more acres of citrus than any other ...