Bacteria, viruses and fungi are masters at evolving new strategies to infiltrate plants and cause disease that harm crops. To ...

Last week I covered insect pests of concern in Indiana, and today I’ll cover four plant diseases of concern in our landscapes and woodlands. Like last week, this is certainly not a comprehensive list ...

Chinese scientists established PRMT6-mediated arginine methylation of viral suppressor RNA silencing (VSR) as a novel mechanism of plant immunity against viruses. Their work, titled "Protein ...

if plant virology can inform zoonotic virus emergence, then the two should share in common: “outbreak” phenomena (sudden appearance), “spillover” phenomena (transfer from wild to domesticated areas), ...

RNA viruses have been harnessed for the delivery of the core components involved in genome editing in plants. The limitation in the capacity of positive-strand RNA viruses (PSVs) is compensated by ...

Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized ...