Researchers from the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida are closer to finding a possible cure for citrus canker after identifying a gene that makes citrus trees ...

THE citrus canker disease outbreak in the Northern Territory has been confirmed as a different genetic strain to the one that wiped out commercial crops in Emerald in Queensland more than a decade ago ...

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 ...

Scientists have completed the draft genome sequences of two strains of the Xanthomonas bacteria that cause citrus canker. Citrus canker, a belligerent disease that has plagued plant growers in parts ...

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 ...

The bacterial disease was found on a potted lime tree — a patio plant not found in commercial production — at a retail nursery in Darwin. Citrus Australia chief executive Nathan Hancock moved to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 18,000 Orange County homeowners whose citrus trees were destroyed by the state in a futile campaign to eradicate ...

An important bacterial disease that affects citrus trees and causes lesions, citrus canker has been effectively controlled by spraying copper. However standard management techniques involve spraying ...

MYTH: My citrus plant will be removed if I get a plant health check FACTS: Residents are encouraged to call or text the citrus canker hotline on 0436 643 470 to book a plant health check for their ...

Citrus canker has officially been eradicated from Australia, three years after the plant disease was discovered in the Northern Territory. Australia is now free of citrus canker, improving export ...

A major citrus grower in Queensland is calling for all citrus plants within canker control areas in the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia to be destroyed. The highly ...

An international team of scientists from Brazil and the United States have completed the draft genome sequences of two strains of the Xanthomonas bacteria that cause citrus canker. Citrus canker, a ...