In addition to diseased plants, you should also pull weeds from your garden as soon as possible to ensure they don’t get the ...

It is the planting season and farmers across the country are busy planting all manner of crops. So you have done the soil testing and are expecting blooming crops on your farm. But there’s more to ...

Interactions among plant species and their soil biota drive plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) that play a major role in the dynamics and diversity of plant communities. Among the different components of the ...

PULLMAN, Wash. Soil pathogen testing - critical to farming, but painstakingly slow and expensive - will soon be done accurately, quickly, inexpensively and onsite, thanks to research that Washington ...

It can be difficult to determine what disease is affecting the veggies in your garden, but if you look closely, you can tell ...

Understanding why some species are rare while others are common remains a central and fascinating question in ecology. Recently, interactions with soil organisms have been shown to affect local ...

Maybe monsoon season is over and maybe not, but one thing we know for sure — with all this water and heat, we will be in the midst of a perfect storm for fungal diseases on our plants, especially ...

The world’s plants, immobile and rooted in soil which contains potentially lethal micro-organisms, face a constant threat from invading pathogens. In recent years, however, scientists have discovered ...