The Forest and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria is leading research into plant pathogens and pests. Plants provide food, feed, and fibre, and maintaining ...

For example, damage to leaves might be caused by a pathogen or grazing animals. The scientists will try to identify any environmental causes such as pollution that might be affecting the plants.

Caused by a fungus, it affects a number of plants, including lilacs, apples, grapes, cucumbers, peas, phlox, daisies and ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the ...

This molecule, which has been patented, holds the potential to be developed into a broad-spectrum biopesticide, aiding plants ...

Zerbe’s lab is focused on understanding how plants use chemicals to interact with their environment and defend themselves ...

Plant diseases significantly threaten global food security by causing substantial reductions in crop yields. 1 The challenge ...

A pivotal study reveals tactics used by the pathogen Botrytis cinerea to undermine strawberry plant immunity. Researchers ...

The authors add, "Plastics in wastewater treatment plants are colonized by microbial biofilms, or 'plastispheres,' which can harbor pathogens, including Listeria, E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae ...

Native plants and non-native crops do not fare well in proximity to one another, attracting pests that spread diseases in both directions, according to two new UC Riverside studies. “We have changed ...