An increase in the spread of rust diseases could have devastating results on the fast-growing ornamental crop industry, say pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS). St. Paul, ...

Rust disease is among the more interesting plant diseases because it requires two different plants to complete its lifecycle. There are a variety of rust diseases, including cedar-apple rust, Asian ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) A water-absorbent coat to keep rust away? It may seem counterintuitive but when it comes to soybean plants and rust disease, researchers from Japan have discovered that applying a ...

What happens when you combine mild weather, rain that lasts for a day or two, and rapidly growing plants fighting for space? Besides a bounty of flowers, foliage might take on an orange-splattered ...

Last year in one of your articles, you talked about rust disease on plants, and as I remember, you mentioned there was something we could do in the spring to help us protect our plants against this ...

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 ...

Heard of the new gladiolus rust disease? Neither had we until a recent e-mail from an East Bay gardener who'd just had an unexpected encounter with U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel. They said ...

St. Paul, Minn. (February 17, 2004) – An increase in the spread of rust diseases could have devastating results on the fast-growing ornamental crop industry, say pathologists with The American ...

Researchers have found that coating soybean plant leaves with cellulose nanofiber (CNF) gives protection against an aggressive fungal disease. The CNF coating changed leaf surfaces from water ...