Bonita Springs is where most Florida citrus industry activities will take place this week. For starters, Florida Citrus Mutual will host its Citrus Industry Annual Conference there from Wednesday through Friday. The Florida Citrus Commission and the Citrus Research and Development Foundation will hold meetings at the site of the Mutual conference. Southeast AgNet’s Ernie Neff reports. Download Audio Register …

In the first of these reports, University of Florida cell geneticist Jude Grosser says genetic efforts to produce HLB-resistant trees probably won’t produce results for a decade. But he says in the second report that a scientist could “get lucky” and find a quicker path to disease resistance. In the third report, he addresses the process of getting resistant trees …

Two recent gubernatorial vetoes of funding legislation have left the Citrus Research and Development Foundation’s budget underfunded. In the first report, foundation chief operating officer Dan Gunter explains the situation and says the foundation will ask the Florida Citrus Commission to make up the funding shortfall. Download Audio In the second report, Gunter says reducing citrus greening research is not …