Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

Tomato disease can be traced to one of four causes: fungal, bacterial, viral, and environmental. Learn to identify them and ...

As our ancient human ancestors were evolving and branching out across Eurasia and into the Americas, so too were the ancestors of a common plant virus genus. Using genome sequencing, researchers in an ...

Narinder Dhillon of Punjab is known as the ‘prince of pumpkin’ across continents. See how he aims to change the world, a ...

Health officials have issued an alert of a ‘high risk’ of being infected with a potentially lethal virus at one of the ...

A dead crow in North Park tested positive for West Nile virus, prompting San Diego County to ramp up mosquito control.

The County of San Diego has confirmed the first detection of West Nile Virus in the county this year, after a dead crow found in North Park tested positive for the virus, prompting health officials to ...

Health officials have issued an alert of a 'high risk' of being infected with chikungunya virus at one of the world's most ...