The technology could transform how growers protect their crops by detecting plant diseases very early on. But can those tools be affordable? You specialize in studying plant diseases, so let’s dive ...

Action Month, a time when farmers should actively test soil for SCN. This is particularly important as the end of the soybean ...

Soybean plants often deal with and survive destructive insects and drought and if they survive they pass these “memories” ...

Research transforms understanding of disease emergence and identifies new strategies for agricultural virus surveillance in ...

Richard (Dick) Staples, a renowned plant pathologist, died on January 15 in Ithaca, New York, two weeks before his 95th birthday. Staples worked at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), a plant sciences ...

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 ...

Plant pathologist Eric Branch’s interest in sugarbeets is rooted in gardening. The sugarbeet specialist for North Dakota State University Extension and University of Minnesota Extension grew up on a ...

Henry Bolley was an early faculty member at what would become NDSU, as well as founder and coach of the football team and first plant pathologist at the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. A ...

WILDWOOD STATE PARK, N.Y. — Matt Borden, a plant pathologist, had walked less than 50 yards into the forest when he froze in place and looked skyward. He was standing in a thicket of beech trees in ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-- Hailing Jin, a University of California, Riverside professor of plant pathology and microbiology, recently received two grants totaling $1.95 million to study molecular regulatory ...