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.

Plant diseases rarely happen by accident. When problems show up in the garden, it is usually because the right conditions come together at the right time. Plant diseases can occur in any garden. In ...

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 ...

You can nurture your tomato plants like prized pets, water them with care, stake them upright, feed them rich compost—and still watch them twist, yellow, and collapse. Sometimes the threat doesn’t ...

Rhode Island Hit Hard With Little-Known Respiratory Virus originally appeared on the Across Rhode Island Patch ...

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 ...