biocontrol

The avocados at your grocery store are under constant threat from devastating fungal diseases, an...

Huanglongbing has already wiped out millions of orange and lemon trees worldwide, threatening the...

The citrus trees at your local farmers market or in your backyard could one day be protected from...

The strawberries, blueberries, and cherries at your farmers market are under constant threat from...

Fusarium wilt can silently kill your tomato plants from the roots up, and these naturally-made pa...

Apple orchards worldwide are quietly being poisoned by their own soil after replanting, and this ...

A natural, soil-based alternative to fungicides — feeding your plants the right root compounds co...

A naturally occurring soil fungus could replace or reduce fungicides on the alfalfa fields that f...

If a beneficial fungus living in plant roots or stems can supply stress-fighting hormones directl...

Understanding the 'good' microbes naturally living on apples could eventually replace or reduce c...

It could lead to crops that protect themselves from disease without the toxic chemical residues t...

The wheat in your bread may soon need far less pesticide because scientists have identified natur...

Fruits, vegetables, and grains grown near you could soon require far fewer chemical fungicides, b...

Mold toxins quietly contaminate corn, peanuts, and grains in ways that ordinary cooking and stora...

Arsenic quietly accumulates in garden beds near old orchards, painted fences, or busy roads, and ...

Lettuce and other leafy greens grown with recycled wastewater can absorb trace amounts of pharmac...

The garlic and greens you grow in raised beds could soon be inoculated with a precision-blended m...

Soil bacteria like this one could be the living amendment that finally lets vegetable gardeners b...

Weeds like barnyardgrass are becoming resistant to common herbicides, and these dragonfly gut fun...

Willow and poplar trees lining your local stream or planted as windbreaks face a growing threat f...

Compost and wood-chip mulch you add to your garden beds may be quietly supercharging beneficial f...

If you grow tomatoes, carrots, or sunflowers, broomrape parasites can latch onto their roots invi...

The same fungus that gardeners and farmers already spray on pests to kill them can quietly take u...

Bacteria already living inside the roots and stems of your garden plants are silently fighting of...

Cold-hardy soil bacteria pulled from fermentation waste could one day replace chemical fertilizer...

Root-knot nematodes invisibly destroy the roots of vegetables and beans in home gardens every yea...

Farmers and gardeners may soon be able to spray a natural, bacteria-derived substance on their cr...

Stone fruit trees, grapevines, and vegetable crops across the world are quietly being devastated ...

Fire blight devastates apple and pear orchards worldwide, and the same antibiotic-resistance cris...