Potting mixes custom-tailored to fight plant diseases can work much better than systemic fungicides. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologists Leona Horst, James Locke and Charles Krause ...

Farmers have long fought a quiet war against the fungi that rot crops in fields and storage sheds. Each year, these diseases destroy harvests of lettuce, beans, oilseed rape, wheat, and many other ...

Penn State researchers found that certain Trichoderma fungi can boost tomato growth and alter soil bacterial communities, offering potential as a biological alternative to chemical fungicides.

Research led by Penn State shows certain Trichoderma fungi can enhance tomato growth and influence soil bacterial communities, potentially offering an alternative to chemical fungicides. The fungi may ...

One of the criticisms of research is that much of it's value is never harnessed, that the work either remains in the laboratory or is never effectively applied in the real world. It was a challenge ...

Twenty-four goats died after consuming Trichoderma Viride, a bio-fungicide primarily used for soil treatment, at Saidowal village near here on Monday. The animal husbandry department, however, rescued ...