A devastating pest that has killed tens of millions of oak trees in California was discovered for the first time in Minnesota, researchers announced this week. The “sudden oak death” pathogen, which ...

Those trees are central to one of the efforts to restore the American chestnut. If enough of them have distinct means of ...

Ontario residents are being urged to hold off on pruning their oak trees until November to help stop the spread of a deadly, fast-moving fungus known as oak wilt. Oak wilt is caused by a fungal ...

In southern Italy, two varieties of olive trees, some infected with a disease called Xylella fastidiosa, a bacteria carried from tree to tree by a little bug, and some resisting the infection CHARLES ...

Plant‐pathogenic fungi rely on finely tuned cellular processes to invade host tissues and sustain infection. This study ...

Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing February 11 in the Cell Press journal Cell Host & ...

Dothistroma needle blight (DNB) is a serious foliar disease impacting a wide range of pine species throughout the globe. The disease is principally associated with the fungal pathogens Dothistroma ...

Each year, nearly 30 million Americans purchase a real tree for the holidays. Growing the perfect Christmas tree takes about seven years, during which farmers need to keep insects, fungal pathogens ...

Anthracnose is one of the most damaging fungal diseases affecting woody oil crops and many other plants, causing severe yield losses worldwide.

Gympie Mayor Glen Hartwig revealed on Friday the $20,000 live Christmas tree next to the Sound Bowls in the Nelson Reserve ...