Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies ...

German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...

Bacterial DNA isolated from a 120-year-old preserved plant cutting helped reconstruct the history of Pierce’s disease in ...

Biologists have identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism.

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have pinpointed the Andes Mountains as the birthplace of the infamous Irish ...

There are more than 30,000 plant diseases. This number really only applies to the plant diseases of “economical and aesthetic ...

They report a case of endophthalmitis and undertook a literature review to identify previous infections with this pathogen.

Silicon (Si) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, found in large quantities in soil. While Si is not essential for land plants, many plants, such as rice and grasses, have used Si to develop ...

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Scientists are working on a new project to fight plant diseases transmitted by psyllids — particularly the zebra chip disease ...