Scientists have discovered how one of the world’s most destructive plant diseases manages to slip past crops’ defences - a breakthrough that could help farmers grow stronger, more resilient plants.

A disease that is wreaking havoc on Queensland's precious Bunya Pine trees has now forced the closure of a popular mountain trail in the south-east Queensland hinterland. The microscopic water mould ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded a small specialty crop block grant to the Michigan Christmas Tree ...

Scientists have discovered how one of the world's most destructive plant diseases manages to slip past crops' defenses—a breakthrough that could help farmers grow stronger, more resilient plants.

Pythium, Phytophthora, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia are soil borne fungal pathogens that infect soybeans as seedling blights. Soybean seedling diseases like these accounted for nearly 6 million bushels ...

Grass trees can live for centuries, slowly inching upwards year after year, but it only takes a month or so for them to die from the introduced plant disease Phytophthora dieback. A "biodiversity ...

Soybean growers looking to protect their crops against prevalent disease issues and maintain high yield potential will have two new fungicide tools from Corteva Agriscience in 2024 to help in the ...

Oregon State University Extension, in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture and Pacific University, is offering a specialized workshop on pathogen management for nurseries.

Thousand of trees are to be felled to slow the spread of a disease which is destroying larch trees in Cornwall. Phytophthora ramorum was first discovered in the UK in 2002 and identified in the South ...