How exactly bacterial pathogens cause diseases in plants remains a mystery and continues to frustrate scientists working to solve this problem. Now scientists have performed research on the soybean ...

One cannot study plant defence without being impressed by the complex and sophisticated systems that plants have evolved to withstand a variety of pathogens. It is often mentioned that plants ...

Math was not my favorite subject in school, so I have always been a little wary of mathematical concepts. But growing roses introduced me to the disease triangle, which is one bit of geometry triangle ...

Plant diseases occur in most gardens. Many happen on a yearly basis, others sporadically. Why disease occurs often is dependent on weather. In fact, there are three conditions that must exist for a ...

Plant diseases are unavoidable — especially in central North Carolina, where our summers are extra hot and extra humid. But that doesn’t necessarily mean our plants are ruined. The News & Observer ...

I have several tomato plants in my home garden. They were all doing great, but then two of them just turned brown and died. I know it’s not a watering issue because they all get the same amount of ...

Brown and green plant material provide your compost bin with much-needed nutrients. However, certain plants can contaminate ...

It may have been 1 billion years since plants and animals branched apart on the evolutionary tree, but down through the ages they have developed strikingly similar mechanisms for detecting microbial ...