KJZZ examines the storied history of the state’s five C’s — copper, cotton, cattle, citrus and climate — and the role they still play in modern-day Arizona.

While most of your gardening tasks wrap up as winter progresses, it could be just the right time to pay attention to your dormant fruit trees.

In a destructive alliance, a group of bacteria and a group of insects—one causing and the other spreading citrus greening, one of the most devastating diseases in citrus farming—have continued to ...

While familiarity with the term “grafting” is widespread among gardeners, a true understanding of what grafting is and why it is done is not so common. In a nutshell, grafting is a horticultural ...

THE importance of knowing the variety of the rootstock in a citrus orchard is more than academic. The tolerance of an orange tree to infectious diseases; the size, the number and quality of its fruits ...

Brazil has been the world’s largest orange producer, with a production of 16 million tons in 2022 (FAO 2021). In that harvest, the production value reached R$ 16.9 billion, covering a harvested area ...

Q: We planted what we thought was a lime tree around 10 years ago. After a poorly managed pruning, its main trunk died and an offshoot managed to grow into a main trunk. Now we have a 20-foot-tall, ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible effect of environmental factors on meiosis, meiotic index, pollen viability and in vitro germination of pollen from stock plants of the ...

The widespread multiple-night hard freeze that occurred in North Florida near the end of December 2022 resulted in numerous citrus trees becoming severely damaged. The above-ground portion of many of ...

Citrus is the world's most economically significant fruit crop, but it faces various environmental adversities that restrict its distribution. Grafting is a crucial factor in enhancing citrus ...