In terms of dandelions, the best time to control them is when they are in the puff ball or shoe fairy stage. (Shoe fairies are the name my grandson gave them years ago while walking through the yard, ...

For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to making the world’s finest dessert wines. Now UC Davis researchers working with Dolce Winery in the Napa Valley show how the fungus ...

“Noble rot” is just a nickname for Botrytis cinerea, a humidity-loving fruit fungus that causes grapes to shrivel and dehydrate, concentrating flavors. It sounds ugly (and grapes with botrytis ...

Cara Morrison’s award-winning dessert wine features a little something that might raise an eyebrow. But for vineyards, it’s ...

In fact, the spores of Botrytis cinerea (conidia), a fungal pathogen responsible for gray mold disease, can be dry stored at -80°C (-112°F) for years and still be capable of germinating.

Four of these were previously unknown to science. When tested on Botrytis cinerea fungus, four of the 17 diterpenoids (including two of the new ones) destroyed the plasma membrane of the fungus.

Air filtration systems can keep the indoor growing area free of airborne fungal spores. Botrytis cinerea spores (commonly known as gray mold) are approximately 11-12 microns in diameter (Gull 1971) ...