WSU receives a $2.1 million grant to help save the U.S. and global citrus industry. WSU scientists will develop methods of growing a citrus-destroying bacteria so that strategies to fight the disease it causes can be pursued.
Did you have a glass of orange juice this morning? If so, you may want to know that the simple pleasures brought to us by citrus fruit are under attack from a disease called citrus greening or yellow dragon disease.