Above: Hosta with symptoms of leaf spots and necrosis. Do your landscape plants have cankers, mosaics, galls, mummies, or witches’ brooms? These and other symptoms are often hard for the average ...

Plant diseases occur in most gardens. Many happen on a yearly basis, others sporadically. Why disease occurs often is dependent on weather. In fact, there are three conditions that must exist for a ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an electronic patch that can be applied to the leaves of plants to monitor crops for different pathogens, such as viral and fungal ...

Let’s talk about two of the main classifications of plant diseases — biotic and abiotic — and the differences between them. The term “abiotic” means “without life.” Examples include damage from the ...

Research transforms understanding of disease emergence and identifies new strategies for agricultural virus surveillance in ...

Greening disease has devastated the citrus crop in Florida, but University of Florida scientists are using genes from another ...

The best defense against Fusarium root rot begins with selecting the right soybean variety. Not all varieties are equally ...

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed an innovative method for the early detection of Fusarium wilt in tomato plants by monitoring subtle changes in the plants' water use.