Q: I love hollyhocks for their colorful, crinkled flowers, and I have a row of them planted along the edge of my patio which I grew from seed. I was disappointed last year, however, as unsightly ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are piecing together clues about how a global pest hacks the immune systems of soybeans. Soybean rust fungus poses one of the biggest threats to soybean ...

What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common? They are all susceptible to parasitic rust diseases caused by fungi. Plant rust disease can easily be spotted by the ...

A recent study looking at the molecular foundation of myrtle rust reveals how the pathogen breaks into a host plant and how the host plant responds. This insight will inform the design of useful tools ...

Question. All of a sudden, our plumeria has developed yellow leaves with an orange coating on their backsides. What should I do to control the decline? Answer. Many of our favorite flowering plants ...

Native trees like the paperbark are central to the culture of the traditional owners of K'Gari (Fraser Island). "These species are living stories," says Matilda Davis, who works with the Butchulla ...

Rust fungi of the order Pucciniales inflict devastating foliar diseases on major crops by deploying suites of secreted proteins known as effectors. These molecules manipulate host immunity, facilitate ...

Question: You recommended a fungicide for an orange rust control on plumeria. The rust fungus seems like a natural occurrence, especially as the leaves decline in the fall. I have developed the ...

It took decades of painstaking work, but a research geneticist managed to cross a popular soybean variety with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first ...

Deadly plant disease myrtle rust has reached the remote Chatham Islands, but experts say the discovery might have a “silver lining” for weed control. The invasive fungus first arrived in New Zealand ...