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Who a thunk it, but coffee can grow in coastal California, because our latitude approximates the climate found in high altitude coffee growing areas found in Central America. And now there is a "small" industry growing here.

Calls have come in - "What is the browning on the avocado leaves? Thrips damage? Salt damage? Dothiorella?" Nope, Frost Damage. From the end of February to the first week of March, Santa Paula had one night of 30 deg F, and 3 nights of 33 and a few nights around 35..

Translating the science of managing HLB Your resource for learning about existing and new tools being developed by researchers to protect and manage citrus from the causative agent of huanglongbing (HLB).

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. Sometimes in science, a new perspective brings an a ha! moment. That's what one senior researcher at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences believes happened with his latest research on Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening.

New Candidatus Liberibacter' Pathosystems Focus Issue from APS (American Phytopathological Society) Read the great review of the bacteria that causes Citrus Huanglongbing and then the abstracts of the articles in this edition of Phytopathology.