fungal-disease
Fungal disease in plants, caused by pathogenic fungi that infect tissues and disrupt normal physiological processes, represents one of the most significant threats to agricultural productivity and ecosystem health worldwide. Unlike the human mycoses described in general medical contexts, plant fungal pathogens such as rusts, smuts, blights, and mildews can devastate entire crops and wild plant populations by hijacking nutrient uptake, destroying photosynthetic tissue, and compromising vascular systems. Understanding the mechanisms of fungal infection in plants is critical for developing resistant cultivars, improving disease management strategies, and safeguarding global food security.
open_in_new WikipediaNext-generation nano-bio strategies for sustainable fusarium management.
Fusarium fungus threatens the wheat, corn, and strawberries in your grocery store — and the garde...
Spatiotemporal interaction of tef head smudge disease (Curvularia s...
Tef is the grain behind injera, the flatbread eaten daily across Ethiopia and increasingly found ...
Systemic defense signaling in Austrian pine.
Pine trees lining your neighborhood streets and local parks are quietly waging chemical warfare a...
Combined generalist and host-specific transcriptional strategies en...
A fungus that can jump from your tomatoes to your roses to your ornamental grasses without missin...
RasGEFs Play Essential Roles in the Biology of Sclerotinia scleroti...
White mold quietly devastates backyard bean patches and sunflower beds every wet summer, and conv...
Tomato Early Blight and its Management in sub-Saharan Africa.
Tomatoes grown in backyard gardens and small farms across Africa are under threat from a fungal d...
Researchers mapped exactly how gray mold invades and disables Solom...
Solomon's seal lines shady garden paths across temperate gardens, and the gray mold that collapse...
Fungal diseases keep limiting cotton yields despite available treatments
Cotton is in nearly every piece of clothing you own, and the fungal diseases quietly limiting its...
Suppression of Hsp90 expression in Aspergillus fumigatus enhances s...
Same class of opportunistic pathogens studied here can devastate weakened or stressed plants, and...
Bat skin microbiome and the association of ecoregion and bat specie...
Bats are some of the most prolific insect hunters in the night sky above your garden — a single c...
Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis, its risk facto...
Fungal pathogens — the same kingdom that includes the molds and rusts attacking your garden plant...
