It’s citrus season in the U.S., and if you live along the citrus belt — the string of states that hug the southern border from California to Florida — a bevy of fresh local oranges, lemons, kumquats ...

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Q. When is citrus fruit ready to harvest? A. Florida uses five indexes to determine maturity of citrus, including soluble solids, juice content, acid level, soluble solids/acid ratio and skin color.

A mandarin can never be just a mandarin, nor a tangelo a mere tangelo, for anyone who visits the Citrus Variety Collection with its curator, Tracy L. Kahn. The confirmed orangophile has, since 1995, ...

It’s satsuma time in Louisiana. Some plants began ripening in late September, while other varieties will continue to mature through late November on into early December. As one of the best cold-hardy ...

In 1998 an insect called the Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) showed up in Florida and caused concern because it was known to vector this disease while feeding on the tree’s sap. However the bacteria didn’t ...

UF/IFAS officials say a new crop is growing in popularity for both commercial and recreational plant growers: bamboo.

(A) Experiments conducted in Carrizo and Cleopatra plants under control conditions (C), high temperatures (H), high irradiance (L), water stress (W); and combined L + H, W + L, W + H, and W + L + H.