Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new online tool—reportedly the first of its kind for plant pathogens—to help researchers across the globe identify, detect, and monitor ...

A devastating pest that has killed tens of millions of oak trees in California was discovered for the first time in Minnesota, researchers announced this week. The “sudden oak death” pathogen, which ...

Researchers are hunting down the origins and extent of the outbreak of a new Eastern Filbert Blight strain that overcomes the disease resistance bred into Oregon hazelnut trees. Meanwhile, farmers are ...

Berkeley – Genetic detective work by an international group of researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery of the source of a devastating tree-killing fungus that has hit six of the world's ...

Japanese apple rust, a disease affecting apple and crabapple trees, as well as junipers, left this spot on the leaves of a tree. The finger-like projections on the back of the leaf produce fungal ...

Ontario residents are being urged to hold off on pruning their oak trees until November to help stop the spread of a deadly, fast-moving fungus known as oak wilt. Oak wilt is caused by a fungal ...

Researchers provide open-access tool to capture new data on a global plant destroyer, Phytophthora. A new online tool -- the first of its kind for plant pathogens -- will help researchers across the ...

In southern Italy, two varieties of olive trees, some infected with a disease called Xylella fastidiosa, a bacteria carried from tree to tree by a little bug, and some resisting the infection CHARLES ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An invasive plant pathogen that causes the disease known as sudden oak death has been discovered at a botanical garden and private home in Lincoln City, the Oregon Department ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The investigation into a mysterious ailment killing Arkansas pine trees has yielded some answers. The increasing occurrences of the strange affliction in recent months have ...

In southern Italy, two varieties of olive trees, some infected with a disease called Xylella fastidiosa, a bacteria carried from tree to tree by a little bug, and some resisting the infection CHARLES ...