... outbreaks of leaf blight and insect pests are now getting expert help from Southeast Asia's first plant disease identification clinic, established by an American plant pathologist with ...
... discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease – quadrupling its prevalence in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that ...
... discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease – quadrupling its prevalence in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that ...
... discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease – quadrupling its prevalence in some cases – and encouraging an invasion of annual grasses that ...
The government will spend £25m in a bid to eradicate plant diseases spreading across the country.
... Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States....
... time.
But fungi are more than just a medical problem: as the cause of more than half of all plant diseases, fungi are also an expensive drain on agriculture. The economic repercussions of managing ...
Usually researchers worry about foreign plant harming local species, but new research has found that native plant diseases could threaten important introduced crops.
... cost of worldwide crop losses due to plant diseases is estimated at $60 billion annually. Although there are no good estimates of the cost of plant viruses alone, the viruses are generally considered ...
... a field in what is thought to be the first account of a viral plant disease. More than 1,250 years later, scientists concluded that the virus Koken described was part of the particularly ...
... market prices and inefficient agricultural practices.
"These factors, along with drought, plant disease and other challenges that are prevalent in the Southwest, have made it difficult for producers ...
... a field in what is thought to be the first account of a viral plant disease. More than 1,250 years later, scientists concluded that the virus Koken described was part of the particularly ...
... that understanding more about how this microbe works could lead to new ways of tackling it, and other plant diseases, without the need for pesticides.
Scientists have found that the pathogen is very ...
... -sized kit is carried to a field where thousands of tons of food are growing. The search is for microorganisms that could infect and kill the plants, wreaking havoc on the food supply and market.
... have other adverse environmental effects. The new materials are more selective, stopping fungi that cause plant diseases without harming other organisms. They work in a unique way, disrupting a key ...
