Growing vegetables can be fun and beneficial. Follow our step-by-step guide for beginners on starting a vegetable garden from ...

Choose tomato plants or seeds labeled as a variety resistant to verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt ... which can cause root rot. Water the roots, not the leaves, to help prevent disease.

Foot rot is a fungal disease that affects ... It is caused by the fungus Fusarium verticillioides, a soil-seed borne pathogen which spreads the infection through the root of the plant, and eventually ...

Resting spores germinate in the spring, producing zoospores that swim very short distances in soil water to root hairs. These resting spores ... or to other diseases such as blackleg or Fusarium wilt.

How growers are combating diseases through integrated management, using pathogen-free sites, resistant crops, and targeted ...

A field agronomist in eastern Missouri says farmers should be monitoring soybeans for red crown rot, a new soil-borne fungal disease in the state. “About the time you’re spraying fungicide is probably ...

Turning silver nanoparticles into commercial products could create a faster pathway to new antimicrobials and cancer treatments.

‘Brain rot’—the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year—describes the potential mental decline caused by spending way too many hours on your phone or computer. If you’ve ever surfaced from an hours ...