A damaging cotton virus thought to be a recent invader has actually been hiding in U.S. fields for nearly two decades. New ...

Sugarcane Mosaic Virus is an emerging problem for our St. Augustine lawns in Florida. Viruses are some of the smallest and ...

Starting clean and staying clean is a year-round process growers can adopt to prevent disease, control pests and prepare for ...

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 viruses constantly evolve to overcome plant defenses, causing crop damage. Researchers found a single change in a viral ...

Rapid development of next generation sequencing technologies have greatly increased the amount of available sequence data, and provided novel opportunities for investigations of the molecular ...

A new study has identified the first known gene in eggplant that provides resistance to begomoviruses, a group of plant viruses responsible for major crop losses worldwide. The research shows that ...

Planthoppers and leafhoppers not only feed on rice plants but also act as highly efficient vectors for plant viruses, causing ...

Let’s talk about two of the main classifications of plant diseases — biotic and abiotic — and the differences between them. The term “abiotic” means “without life.” Examples include damage from the ...