For farmers, successful avocado cultivation depends on careful site selection rather than rapid expansion. Planting in newly ...

Scientists with the University of Florida have secured a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to combat the lethal Laurel wilt disease ...

The soaring demand for avocados in Europe and North America has led to a trebling of global production in just over 20 years. However, this popular fruit is increasingly controversial because of the ...

In an unprecedented study, researchers have achieved a telomere-to-telomere, gap-free genome assembly of the West Indian avocado, revealing genes crucial for fatty acid biosynthesis and disease ...

The Peruvian avocado industry expects production to rise as much as 20 percent this season, with Chile and Argentina emerging ...