Trees are important to the environmental health of cities through their capacity to improve air quality, provide cooling via shade and transpiration, and foster natural beauty. New research in ...

A destructive plant pathogen has long puzzled scientists with its ability to move swiftly through crops and cause sudden, ...

The flash of lightning and the dance of auroras contain a fourth state of matter known as plasma, which researchers have harnessed to produce a gas that may activate plant immunity against wide-spread ...

Researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station are using a new vertical farming system to find spinach varieties that have resistance to a challenging root disease in hydroponic systems ...

The study was conducted in a grassland on the UC Santa Cruz campus known as the “Great Meadow.” (Photo by Gregory Gilbert) Researchers grew a selection of 44 wild plant species with no previous ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–The first systematic test of how widely pathogens can spread among distantly related plants reveals far greater range than conventional wisdom would suggest, raising questions about the ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico State University professor was awarded nearly $6 million to help reduce the risk of one of the most common plant pathogens in the United States. Soum Sanogo, a ...

Research shows a sugar-based coating secreted by a soil-dwelling bacterium flows easily inside plant water vessels, letting infections spread fast.

Starting with over 1,300 receptors from the genomes of 350 plant species, the researchers eventually identified an unknown immune receptor in the pomelo, a common citrus plant. A series of experiments ...

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