Tag: plant pathology

A new study demonstrates that combining fiber optic reflectance and terahertz spectroscopy can detect potato late blight before visible symptoms ...

New open-source software uses deep learning to automate the quantitative assessment of Fusarium root rot in cereal seedlings, overcoming the ...

Two novel Alternaria species, A. unguiculatae and A. hainanensis, have been discovered from symptomatic cowpea leaves in Hainan Province, China, ...

An integrative taxonomic study of rose rust fungi in China has described two new Phragmidium species and clarified the evolutionary ...

Researchers in China have described four new species of the fungal genus Pseudoplagiostoma using a combination of morphology and five-locus ...

Plant pathologists have long faced a stubborn diagnostic problem: a single leaf can carry several diseases at once, each with ...

Chinese researchers have identified three previously unknown fungal species causing leaf disease on the medicinal vine tea plant using an ...

A genus-wide comparative genomic analysis of 150 Colletotrichum strains reveals how phylogenetic conservation and divergent ecological adaptation have shaped one ...

Researchers have sequenced the complete genome of an Indian isolate of the white rust pathogen Albugo candida, revealing 13,715 genes ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests and botanical gardens of Hainan Province, China, two previously unknown species of one of the ...

The discovery that agricultural soils in northwestern Spain harbor such a diverse array of Fusarium species carries implications that extend ...

A massive Chinese field trial of 26 plant baits shows that leaves outperform seeds, and that host-plant foliage is the ...

A study of maize ear rot in Karnataka identifies Fusarium verticillioides as the dominant pathogen, links its prevalence to universal ...

Genome-wide sequencing of 85 isolates confirms that the invasive root rot pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi comprises three clonal lineages, two predominantly ...

A University of Córdoba study finds that drought and pathogen-hosting shrubs in the surrounding landscape intensify the impact of Xylella ...

Researchers in the Philippines have used 16S rRNA sequencing and greenhouse pathogenicity tests to confirm Ralstonia solanacearum as the cause ...

A genome-wide association study of a synthetic hexaploid wheat mapping population has identified 37 markers linked to tan spot resistance, ...

University of Tennessee professor emeritus Mark Windham has received the American Rose Society's Gold Honor Medal for decades of research ...

A new knowledge distillation framework compresses three large neural networks into a 6.97 MB model that classifies rice diseases, localizes ...

A new taxonomy-aware segmentation framework links every diseased pixel to both its host crop and its disease, delivering state-of-the-art results ...