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The city of Riverside pitched a white tent over the "Parent Navel" orange tree at the intersection of Arlington and Magnolia avenues last week to protect it from the threat of huanglongbing disease, reported Ryan Hagen the Riverside Press Enterprise.

The Citrus Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), a $124 million state citrus-industry initiative, has invested nearly 90 percent of its funds in HLB research.

A recent blog by Farm Advisor Rachel Freeman Long in Yolo/Solano/Sacramento Counties alerted me to a weed that I thought was mainly a northern California plant. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.

Los Angeles County Spring 2018 ISHB/GSOB Field Trainings Registration now open Learn how to recognize the signs of invasive shot hole borer and gold spotted oak borer infestations in native and landscape trees.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have made an important step in understanding the molecular mechanism of huanglongbing (HLB), a destructive disease that is a serious threat to the citrus industry worldwide.