Even with today's advanced agricultural technologies, plant diseases can still be extremely devastating to crops, causing billions of dollars in losses worldwide every year. Begomoviruses represent a ...

As cases of chronic kidney disease emerge in outdoor laborers around the world, scientists are finding that repeated damage ...

For years, Oscar has greeted dawn with the rhythmic swing of his machete as he chops sugar cane in fields near his home in El ...

Shuai Feng and Chunling Chen’s team from Shenyang Agricultural University, have developed a novel vegetation index—the Rice ...

Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot ...

One leaf is almost all yellow, a sickly sign of bacterial blight – a disease that has afflicted Malaysian rice fields for ...

Corteva Forcivo will feature three modes of action to address foliar diseases in corn, soybeans, wheat and other crops via ...

In a significant step toward sustainable agriculture, the Green Foundation, based in Kwakeithel Thiyam Leikai, Imphal, has ...

Rice is one of the world's most essential food crops, but its production is constantly threatened by leaf diseases caused by pathogens such as fungi, bacteria, and viruses. These diseases ...

One in four rice samples from more than 100 different store brands contained dangerous levels of arsenic, a new investigation found. Here’s what to do.

Approximately 90% of the world’s rice is grown in Asian continent and constitutes a staple food for 2.7 billion people worldwide. Bacterial leaf blight (BLB) caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is ...