(Beyond Pesticides, May 9, 2025) Research in Advances in Modern Agriculture showcases how pesticide residues can threaten the health of soil nematodes and cause phytotoxic effects in cucumber plants.

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful method for reducing the damage the parasitic worms cause in crops such ...

Successful parasitism, regardless of the taxonomy of the host ... We propose that this ability appears conserved throughout plant-parasitic nematodes based on gene conservation and targeting these ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to ...

Want to learn more about California native plants? Take a deep dive with experts from the Theodore Payne Foundation and California Native Plant Society April 26-27 at the L.A. Times Plants ...

a quick Google search reveals that there are upwards of 110 different plants mentioned. Cramm’s book is organized in chapters that pair garden themes with some of them. For example, there is ...

The Philippines introduced its own taxonomy this year. The Singapore and Thailand taxonomies have the most stringent and robust quantitative criteria, allowing green classifications only for power ...

The panoramic memory of the world is really contained in our own visual field, and this book urges us to notice this. Linnaeus picked up all this and ran with it in his Systema Naturae. By classifying ...

two plant taxonomists at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa who have spent years campaigning for the international taxonomy system to allow the changes of offensive plant and animal names.

Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the foundation for conserving disappearing plants and animals. Yet the field — often viewed as an archaic, dusty tradition that ...

Guest host Arielle-Duhaime Ross talks with science journalist Zoë Schlanger about her new book, The Light Eaters: How The Unseen World Of Plant Intelligence Offers A New Understanding Of Life On Earth ...