Botrytis cinerea (gray mold) is a problem on strawberries this year thanks to the rainy weather this spring. The fungus causes infected blossoms to turn brown and dry up. Infected fruit develops a ...

Scientists are reporting identification of the cluster of genes responsible for the toxins produced by "gray mold," a devastating plant disease that kills almost 200 different food and ornamental ...

The team discovered a novel virulence mechanism of Botrytis cinerea, a pathogen that can infect more than 200 plant species, causing serious gray mold disease on almost all fruits and vegetables ...

Cane collaborated with labs in France and Spain to identify the sequence of a toxin-producing gene in Botrytis cinerea, or gray mold. Gray mold is a widespread fungus that kills "both agricultural and ...

Sequencing and analysis of genomes of fungi responsible for gray mold rot on grapevines ... respectively Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea. The two very closely related species quickly ...

Hoping to avoid the gloom, the city had put up the baskets May 14. Gray mold, or botrytis cinerea, thrives in damp cool weather. “And that’s what we had for the last two weeks,” Curran said.

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, ...

To look closer, the team profiled the messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules present in a plant called Arabidopsis thaliana–or Thale cress–against gray mold (Botrytis cinerea). mRNA are small ...