Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies ...

German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...

1 “The biogeography of this pathogen specifically is really important because there keep being new outbreaks which have led to epidemic situations all over the world,” said study coauthor Alexandra ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Plants defend against pathogens through a two-phase immune response involving calcium signals and reactive oxygen species. Calcium signals, triggered by pathogen ...

Understanding stress physiology and molecular response mechanisms in plants is essential for improving crop production and quality, particularly under ...

North Carolina State University researchers continue to push the field of plant disease diagnosis forward, developing ...

Intrigued, Iyer-Pascuzzi went on to become a graduate student in a plant pathology lab at Cornell University. But she soon found herself more drawn to the work of Cornell rice geneticist Susan McCouch ...

Scientific testing is showing that disease-causing pathogens are adapting to farmers’ use of pesticides and fungicides on ...

The University of Wyoming Extension welcomes four new specialists in the Department of Plant Sciences. With experience in ...