BATON ROUGE — Commercial citrus growers have dwindled over the past few decades in south Louisiana, where farmers have had to battle hurricanes, flooding, invasive insects, freezes and drought to keep ...
In a new strategy to combat citrus greening disease, scientists have engineered citrus trees to act as both bait and executioner for the insects that spread the disease. Using virus-induced gene ...
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 trees ...
Photo caption: Kim Dillon, manager at Ben & Ben Becnel, Inc., rightens a sprinkler in one of their greenhouses in Plaquemines Parish, La., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Photo courtesy AP. Commercial ...
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