Q: Last year I learned I had rust on my serviceberry and hawthorn trees. What do I look for this year to prevent that? A: It’s hard to prevent rust infections on vulnerable plants unless you are ...

A rust infection may reduce the size of the bulbs, but you should still be able to harvest a decent, perfectly edible crop.

Coffee rust is a parasitic fungus and a big problem for coffee growers around the world. A study in the birthplace of coffee—Ethiopia—shows that another fungus seems to have the capacity to supress ...

New research using remote sensing technology has delivered promising results to scientists looking for innovative ways to help nurseries combat the spread of myrtle rust. Scientists at Crown Research ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

Gray leaf spot is also active in the lower canopy at multiple sites across the state. The lesions are light tan in color and generally narrow and rectangular, and can be as long as 2 inches. As the ...

In the course of studies on the nature of resistance of plants to disease, experiments were performed to determine the effect of stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Erikss. and Henn., ...

What you are describing sounds very much like the lawn of a friend I visited last week. I noticed that his front lawn showed stunted growth and thin areas along with a yellowish appearance. Even from ...

Stripe rust may last the entire wheat season, longtime USDA research plant pathologist Xianming Chen says. “It’s a combination of the growth stage and weather conditions,” Chen told Capital Press of ...

Coffee rust is a parasitic fungus and a big problem for coffee growers around the world. A study in the birthplace of coffee - Ethiopia - shows that another fungus seems to have the capacity to ...