A fungal disease called Neopestalotiopsis, first detected in the U.S. in 2017, is causing significant crop loss for ...

You can use summer oil or abamectin, which are pesticides that are effective against mites and can be used in rotation. But avoid the use of pesticides if there is a fish pond nearby, as they are ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...

Trials conducted by Richard Austin Agriculture have identified a natural alternative to fungicides to prevent cavity spot in carrots. Using two biostimulants, Sirius and Pluton, the trial showed ...

Washington, D.C.—Researchers have discovered that an enzyme can serve as an ideal target for developing new therapeutics against Lyme disease, and most likely other tick-borne diseases as well. The ...

black spot is a severe fungal infection that prospers in warm, wet weather, making it particularly prevalent during the spring months. While the disease does not directly kill rose bushes ...

Bacterium malvacearum, the causative agent of ‘black-arm’, or angular leaf-spot disease of the cotton plant, has been described in certain recent papers as capable of producing a systemic ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Microbiota transplantation is emerging as a promising strategy against cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD), which severely impacts cotton production, especially in ...

Researchers offered insights into cherry leaf spot, a fungal disease that causes premature defoliation, at the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market EXPO in December. Often described as the ...

The increasing prevalence of grey leaf spot (GLS), caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis, and northern corn leaf blight (NCLB), caused by the fungus Exserohilum turcicum, in South Africa’s ...

In order to facilitate the display of labels, the full names of some diseases are abbreviated. In this case, “GLS” in the confusion matrix stands for Glomerella leaf spot, “ALM” stands for Apple ...