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 ...

The same Phytophthora family that caused the Irish Potato Famine is still destroying tomato crops...

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

If you've ever over-fertilized a tomato plant out of anxiety, this points to a future where a sim...

Soil-drenching beneficial bacteria like this one are already available to home gardeners, and und...

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

Fusarium and other mold diseases quietly devastate vegetable gardens and orchards every season — ...

Soil microbes like this one are why organic farmers who build diverse, healthy soil often see cro...

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

Corn fields near you may soon be treated with enzyme sprays instead of chemical pesticides — a sh...

Sprinkling a fungal inoculant in your vegetable bed could replace a spritz of chemical fungicide ...

Fusarium mold silently rots seeds in your vegetable garden before they ever sprout, and these nat...

Every loaf of bread you bake or buy depends on wheat surviving a gauntlet of fungal diseases that...

The lacewings hovering around your melon vines may be responding to invisible chemical signals fr...

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

Rice fields across Asia may already be running a chemical communication network that calls in all...

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

If you grow garlic in the same bed year after year and keep losing bulbs to rot, the answer may a...

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

Wilt diseases kill tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants with little warning and almost no cure once e...

The invisible film of bacteria and fungi coating your tomato leaves may be as important as any sp...

Soybeans in your local fields and in virtually every processed food you eat are under growing thr...

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

Sprinkle the right bacteria near your vegetable roots and you may be able to crowd out soil patho...

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

Poplar trees line city streets, buffer agricultural fields, and anchor riparian corridors across ...

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...

The scraggly desert shrubs that outlast everything else in arid landscapes aren't just surviving ...

Fire blight can turn a healthy backyard apple or pear tree into blackened, dying branches in a si...

The biological sprays protecting your vegetable garden from caterpillar damage could work far bet...

If you've ever pulled up a tomato plant with lumpy, deformed roots and stunted growth, you've lik...

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

Farmers and gardeners already use Trichoderma-based products to fight root rot and dampen-off dis...

Every orange, lemon, and mandarin sitting in storage or on a store shelf is quietly vulnerable to...

The mustard-family plants in many vegetable gardens, including arugula and broccoli relatives, ma...

Every time you skip a synthetic fungicide on your tomatoes or squash, you're betting on something...

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

If you grow chickpeas or peas in your garden and have battled the wilting, yellowing collapse tha...

The Trichoderma powder you sprinkle on seedlings to fight root rot and the Metarhizium spray used...

The compost tea or biofertilizer mix you spray on your tomatoes might soon work far more reliably...

The soil microbe doing this work already colonizes roots in gardens and farms worldwide, keeping ...

The bacteria coating a tomato leaf or living in your garden soil are constantly waging chemical w...

Bats are some of the most prolific insect hunters in the night sky above your garden — a single c...

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