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

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

Dahlias can be vulnerable to bacterial, fungal, and viral diseases, including powdery mildew, verticillium wilt, crown gall, ...

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 ...

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

Chives are a delicious and easy-to-grow herb with a potent aroma that deters rabbits and other pests. That said, one pest ...

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 ...

Wastewater monitoring helps communities spot rising outbreaks of influenza, COVID, RSV, and more. Our writer gets her feet ...

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

New research reveals that cotton leafroll dwarf virus has been present in U.S. fields since at least 2006 -- well before its official detection.

Another exotic plant disease that destroys tomato crops has ... seedlings infected with the tomato brown rugose fruit virus. New South Wales authorities are investigating the source of a ...

Researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed RNA-based active agents that appear to reliably protect plants against cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most ...