Once standing at 18 feet tall and requiring ladders for harvest – the citrus trees are now barely half that height and ...

The disease poses a significant threat to citrus trees worldwide ... dark lesions on the bark, bleeding cankers, wilting foliage, and death of the plants. The pathogen spreads through water ...

The disease-causing bacterium is spread from tree to tree by the Asian citrus psyllid, a tiny insect found in groves across the state and country. Once the bacterium infects plants, it spreads ...