Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

Tomato disease can be traced to one of four causes: fungal, bacterial, viral, and environmental. Learn to identify them and ...

Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

As our ancient human ancestors were evolving and branching out across Eurasia and into the Americas, so too were the ancestors of a common plant virus genus. Using genome sequencing, researchers in an ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Plant diseases rarely happen by accident. When problems show up in the garden, it is usually because the right conditions come together at the right time. Plant diseases can occur in any garden. In ...

The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...

A research team composed of plant virologists from the Plant Virus Department at Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, the Italian National Research Council and ...

The Forum on Microbial Threats hosts public workshops and supports various other events and publications produced by global ...

Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several more are showing signs of the illness. The outbreak has prompted park ...

Viruses from honey bee hives also appear in wild bees that feed on the same flowers. When infections build, pollination can falter and change plant communities, with real costs for farms and wild ...