Trevor Murphy’s family has been growing Florida citrus for decades. “I’m a third-generation citrus grower. My grandfather ...

Others, like Murphy, are sticking it out, hoping to survive until a bug-free tree or other options arrive to repel the ...

Florida orange production has fallen by some 90% in the past two decades in large part due to citrus greening, but growers ...

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 ...

A tree that loses branches and foliage in a ... says.A bug-free treeA whole ecosystem of businesses dependent on Florida citrus is at risk if the crops fail, including 33,000 full-time and part ...

Hit by Storms and Disease, Florida's Citrus Growers Try to Survive Until Bug-Free Trees Arrive LAKE WALES, Fla. (AP) — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad's 20-acre (8-hectare) grove in one of ...

Florida expanded by more than 467,000 people ... The process involves inserting a gene into a citrus tree that produces a protein that can kill baby Asian citrus psyllids by making holes in ...

A bug-free tree A whole ecosystem of businesses dependent on Florida citrus is at risk if the crops fail, including 33,000 full-time and part-time jobs and an economic impact of $6.8 billion in ...