Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way that certain bacteria manipulate plants from within. Plant-infecting bacteria have a surprisingly direct way of taking over crops. Instead of slowly ...

In 2025, the Plant Health Clinic diagnosed more than 1,500 plant samples from 62 of the state’s 75 counties, including an ...

Don't let potato diseases and pest ruin your crop of taters! Learn how to identify and combat the most common problems growing potatoes.

In 2019, researchers at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO discovered that a common soil fungus named Fusarium ...

Why relying on familiar plant disease names can result in the wrong diagnosis — and the wrong control strategy.

In 2025, the Arkansas Plant Health Clinic diagnosed more than 1,500 plant samples from 62 of the state’s 75 counties, ...

Plants on remote islands get less disease — but isolation reshapes which species dominate, and those species are the most ...

The Fungicide Resistance Action Committee (FRAC) classified Botrytis cinerea as a high-risk pathogen for its ability to resist multiple chemical classes concurrently. The disease produces millions of ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected microbial relationship that could help explain differences in the severity of a major ...

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