Home gardeners in our area are no strangers to plant diseases. Each year, I review afflicted plants and their fruits. In the ...

As the summer season is approaching, NewsCenter 5 spoke to Dr. Kristen Moffitt, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, asking her about important steps parents can take to ...

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

There are thousands of dahlia cultivars you can plant in the garden, but like any plant, they can be vulnerable to diseases.

Even with today's advanced agricultural technologies, plant diseases can still be extremely devastating to crops, causing billions of dollars in losses worldwide every year. Begomoviruses represent a ...

All plants are susceptible to disease, which can be caused by both living organisms and environmental conditions.  Todd Steinlage, a plant pathologist with the Alaska Plant Materials Center, will ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Research shows climate change is contributing to heat-related illnesses and vector-borne diseases.

there is no straightforward way to cure crops of viral infections. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), plant pests and diseases destroy nearly 40% of the world’s ...

challenges in plant virus detection, methods used for diagnosis, etiology of emerging rice diseases and management of viral diseases. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and polymerase chain ...

A well-watered plant that suddenly wilts or unexpectedly drops its leaves could be infected with the soil pathogen Phytophthora. The disease it causes, Phytophthora root and crown rot, can affect many ...

These are also known as infectious diseases; they can spread from plant to plant. In botany we call these “causal organisms,” things such as fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes that lead to ...