Q: Last year I learned I had rust on my serviceberry and hawthorn trees. What do I look for this year to prevent that? A: It’s hard to prevent rust infections on vulnerable plants unless you are ...

As the Oklahoma wheat crop matures and starts to head out, disease, insect and drought pressure are becoming evident. Meriem Aoun, Oklahoma State University small grains pathologist, said that in ...

University of Idaho cereals pathology and agronomy researcher Juliet Marshall on July 1 received a report of stripe rust in a Monteview-area farmer’s field of UI Gold, a hard white spring wheat ...

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — Cereal crop experts have discovered stripe rust infections in three areas of southeast Idaho and warn cool, wet weather could result in heavy disease pressure this season.

It’s that time of year where pines and other flowering plants are dusting the world with tons of yellow pollen, but if you see orange dust on a pine tree, that could be the sign of a damaging ...

Rust-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers selectively amplified ribosomal DNA of a rust fungus from infected dyers woad. PCR enabled DNA of the fungus to be detected in symptomatic plants ...

Gray leaf spot is also active in the lower canopy at multiple sites across the state. The lesions are light tan in color and generally narrow and rectangular, and can be as long as 2 inches. As the ...

In the course of studies on the nature of resistance of plants to disease, experiments were performed to determine the effect of stem rust (Puccinia graminis Pers. f. sp. tritici Erikss. and Henn., ...

For histological studies of white pine blister rust infection and resistance it is desirable to obtain consistently numerous needle infections in known localized areas. Often, however, artificial ...

Eighteen participating member countries will have something to smile about. Characterization of the resistance will be by morphology as well as through molecular marker assisted methods. The breeders ...