Oranges (Citrus sinensis) have been particularly affected by the disease, says Anne Plotto at the US Horticultural Research Laboratory in Florida.

LoBue Citrus, a fourth-generation full-service grower, shipper and packer of citrus products, will release its Heritage Reserve Navel Oranges early this year. Packed with a unique sugar and acid ...

Returning from India in 1498, the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama brought back to the West the then-unknown sweet orange, the “Chinese” orange (Citrus sinensis) which, of course, became ...

It is a semi-dwarf, meaning that a bud from a navel orange tree was grafted onto a rootstock of a species known as hardy orange (Poncirus trifoliata). It’s a rootstock that controls the growth ...

When Bob Duncan describes his navel oranges, you wonder if he'll run out of adjectives: unbelievable, sweet, juicy, flavourful, refreshing. As any backyard gardener knows, the best food comes from ...

Time for citrus! Nothing is better on cold winter days than a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice or the aromatic zest added to tea. But how do you choose the sweetest and juiciest fruits from ...

Navel oranges are large and exceptionally juicy, but they have a tight peel that can be hard to get off. The Sumo Citrus has that same succulent, juicy quality, but with the looser, easy-to-peel ...

The feeding of Homalodisca vitripennis, also known as the glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS), on Citrus sinensis cv. Navel and Vitis vinifera cv. Chardonnay was monitored in relation to free and ...

A citrus grower in Carnarvon, 900 kilometres north of Perth, has conditioned her trees to fruit early to fill a gap in navel orange supply in Australian supermarkets.