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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...