When plants are infected by pathogens, they mount a two-phase immune response, which first develops directly at the infection ...

A recently discovered disease on crops, Neopestalotiopsis, has caused a significant crop loss in Ohio, resulting in a likely ...

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 ...

By discovering how plants defend themselves from pests, ag researchers aim to help farmers grow resilient crops.

Have you ever wond ered how plants get sick? Your live oak looked perfectly fine a week ago, but now it has oak wilt? Just ...

Environmental conditions can also affect pathogen replication inside arthropod ... Empirical work on mice, voles, ladybird beetles, frogs, and plants has shown that the transmission of most ...

Research lead Sven-Erik Behrens, PhD, at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at MLU, and colleagues, reported ...

For example, damage to leaves might be caused by a pathogen or grazing animals. The scientists will try to identify any environmental causes such as pollution that might be affecting the plants.

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 ...

Aurora Cannabis shares jumped Thursday morning after the cannabis company said it has discovered a genetic resistance that protects its plants from crop disease. Shares rose 12% to 6.98 Canadian ...