plant-pathology

Oomycetes cause the kind of plant diseases that rot your tomatoes, wipe out potato crops, and can...

Faster, cheaper disease tests mean a farmer can confirm whether their wheat field has rust fungus...

Researchers discovered 22 previously unknown plant viruses by mining public genetic dat...

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

Geminiviruses destroy millions of tons of tomatoes, peppers, beans, and squash every growing seas...

Sugarcane viruses quietly erode the sugar and ethanol in every stalk harvested, meaning the price...

If you've noticed shrinking, bitter, misshapen citrus at the store or watched a backyard orange t...

Gray mold quietly destroys strawberries, tomatoes, and roses in home gardens every season — and n...

The mix of fungal diseases hitting your lawn or meadow grasses each summer is largely shaped by t...

The compost you work into your garden beds isn't just feeding your tomatoes — it's recruiting an ...

The tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce grown in greenhouses and hydroponic farms near you could soo...

A fungus that can jump from your tomatoes to your roses to your ornamental grasses without missin...

The weedy strip between your vegetable garden and the neighbor's lawn isn't just aesthetics—it ma...

Avocado trees infected with Sunblotch Viroid can look perfectly healthy for years while quietly p...

Solomon's seal lines shady garden paths across temperate gardens, and the gray mold that collapse...

The reason phage-based sprays to protect your tomatoes from bacterial wilt keep failing in real g...

The mold attacking your tomatoes or the blight on your roses isn't just fighting your plant—it's ...

Every tomato plant that wilts from mosaic virus, every squash stunted by a streak disease, loses ...

Every tomato blight, rose black spot, or squash vine borer you've battled may be winning partly b...

Garlic bulbs rotting in storage or collapsing as seedlings can wipe out an entire season's harves...

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

If you grow pumpkins for fall carving or pie, this research points toward seed varieties bred to ...

Viruses that attack garden vegetables like squash and lettuce have been quietly evolving new tric...

The potatoes in your garden bed or on your dinner plate are under constant threat from a soil pes...

Same class of opportunistic pathogens studied here can devastate weakened or stressed plants, and...

White mold quietly kills lettuce, beans, sunflowers, and dozens of other garden vegetables every ...

The leafhoppers and planthoppers you spot on garden vegetables can carry viruses that reprogram t...

If you toss diseased tomato plants in your compost or a nearby ditch, this virus shows the pathog...

If you grow potatoes in raised beds or a backyard plot, the seed potato you plant this spring may...

Faster, field-deployable disease detection means a pathogen threatening your tomatoes, fruit tree...

Soybeans in fields near you face a water mold called Phytophthora that rots roots and can wipe ou...

Same antibiotic-resistance crisis threatening human medicine also affects the soil bacteria, plan...

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