A plant pathologist says farmers need to keep an eye on winter wheat as heads emerge. Dr. Damon Smith with the University of ...

“The data literally never leaves the orb.” The World Network uses its orbs — chrome, bowling ball-shaped devices —to perform iris scans that verify an individual’s unique identity as ...

Andrew is generally seeing very low levels of disease in his crops, with septoria seen only on the lower leaves, and no rust diseases apart from some small spots of brown rust on the Crusoe.

Researchers have found the stripe rust fungus in research fields on the Palouse, and encourage farmers to apply fungicide if they’ve planted or plan to plant susceptible to moderately ...

The plants wake ... Cedar-apple rust fungi produce orange gelatinous spore masses on juniper. The spores infect apple species and those patches reinfect the junipers. Disrupt the cycle to reduce the ...

The alternative seen in the Salk laboratory is a symbiotic relationship between plants and a soil fungus called arbuscular mycorrhiza — AM for short. The fungus delivers chemical nutrients to ...

A T0 spray aimed at protecting leaf four, and applied in late March/early April, is largely targeted at rust diseases, leaving effective septoria control for later. Gareth Bubb, Bayer’s ...

Irises are affected by a number of diseases ... iris, and appears as black blotches on the leaves. Plants affected by ink disease should be removed and destroyed (not in the compost), and avoid ...

Q: Last year I learned I had rust on my serviceberry and hawthorn trees. What do I look for this year to prevent that? A: It’s hard to prevent rust infections on vulnerable plants unless you ...

do so from below since moist snapdragon foliage in warm weather is highly susceptible to rust, a fungus disease, also seen on roses that is expressed as orange bumps on leaves and quickly spreads ...

The rust fungus seems like a natural occurrence, especially as the leaves decline in the fall. I have developed the practice of removing plumeria leaves that are still on the tree every year in ...