The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might ...

In several experiments, the wearable accurately identified the presence of hydrogen peroxide in groups of plants exposed to a ...

Fusarium oxysporum is a soil-borne fungal pathogen that causes a group of serious plant diseases known as Fusarium wilts. As ...

The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might ...

New research reveals the initial molecular events that grant wheat immunity to stem rust. A new study published in Science, ...

A fungal disease called Neopestalotiopsis, first detected in the U.S. in 2017, is causing significant crop loss for ...

From toddlers in daycare to seedlings in forests, young organisms tend to get sick more easily than adults—a phenomenon that ...

Fruit growers in Washington may have a more reliable way to detect Little Cherry Disease in their trees. Washington State ...

Infected plants are easily identified by a characteristic ... The approach may also be applied to other pathogens and pests. Until now, the substances have been administered manually in the ...

By planting these seeds, people could unintentionally introduce a plant disease to their garden. Depending on the pathogen and the plant species, Conner said one infected seed planted in an otherwise ...