What looks like a danger to the things we enjoy signals deeper vulnerabilities in the food system we depend on.

When viruses invade a plant, you might expect an all-out immune war. But new research published in Science shows that, much like in humans, too strong an immune response can actually do more harm than ...

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 ...

An unusually warm winter in the Desert Southwest may be to blame for an early virus outbreak now showing up in Yuma-area ...

Rose rosette disease now affects roses across much of Texas, including North Texas, where it became a major problem in mass landscape plantings by the late 1990s. Nearly all cultivated roses are ...

Scientists have learned how plants keep viruses from being passed to their offspring, a finding that could ensure healthier crops. The discovery could also help reduce the transmission of diseases ...

Researchers at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have revealed a key defence system in plants to fight viruses. Plants are known to use liquid-like, sticky protein droplets to ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...

Most gardeners are aware of plant diseases that can wreak havoc in their gardens. If you grow fruit trees, you may be confronted with curled, reddened peach leaves (peach leaf curl fungus). If you ...