Slippery, drippy goop makes Ralstonia bacteria devastating killers of plants, causing rapid wilting in tomato, potato, and a ...

Founded in 1907 by Cornell mycologist former Prof. Herbert H. Whetzel, plant pathology, the Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium, or CUP, is the fourth largest museum of fungi in North America, home to ...

A New Mexico State University researcher will lead a workshop on one of the most common plant pathogens during the 2025 New Mexico Chile Conference in February. Soum Sanogo, a professor of fungal ...

An often-overlooked component of natural and human-driven disasters is their potential to affect plant health and thus food security at domestic and international scales. Most disasters have indirect ...

Ralstonia solanacearum in a potato plant. The bacterium destroys the vascular system in plants, causing them to succumb to wilt disease. (Credit: Amilcar Sanchez) Scientists at the University of ...

In just 7 years, the Irish Potato Famine caused approximately one million people to starve to death and forced another estimated million to flee Ireland as refugees. A mold called Phytophthora ...

A new study has identified Aegilops cylindrica, a wild grass closely related to wheat, as a powerful genetic reservoir for resistance against the devastating fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici—the ...

Scientists have discovered that erucamide, a plant-produced fatty acid amide, disrupts the function of the bacterial injectosome—a syringe-like nanomachine that some pathogenic bacteria use to help ...

Calonectria leaf blight represents a serious phytopathological challenge affecting Eucalyptus plantations worldwide. Caused by a complex of Calonectria species – notably, Calonectria pseudoreteaudii – ...