March launches the most exciting stretch of the gardening season. Tiny green sprouts push through soil, trays crowd ...

Pythium disease can significantly damage and even kill your corn, soybean and cotton seedlings. To achieve good stand establishment and seedling vigor, you need to implement an effective pythium root ...

Fungal pathogens, nematodes and seedling diseases attack crops early, making initial management decisions crucial for yields ...

Common soybean blights like Pythium, Phytophthora, and Rhizoctonia cause reduced stand and economic losses for growers annually. All told, soybean seedling diseases cost growers nearly 6 million ...

University of Tennessee Extension expert outlines three primary disease challenges that could significantly affect cotton ...

Plant diseases can occur in any garden. In east Idaho, cool nights, warm days, and irrigation practices can sometimes create ...

Rice seedling blight, an economically costly agricultural disease, is caused by a toxin released by certain Rhizopus fungi. Long thought to be produced by the fungus itself, this toxin has now been ...

American chestnut trees once covered the Eastern woodlands of the United States, before they were mostly wiped out during the early 1900s from an invasive blight fungus. Now, an effort to produce and ...

If you've started to notice dark spots, brown leaves, or yellow tissue on your tomato plants, you might be dealing with a type of blight. These diseases primarily affect nightshade vegetables of the ...