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 ...

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

A common plant virus once known only for infecting black-eyed peas is now taking center stage in cancer research. This virus, known as cowpea mosaic virus or CPMV, is being studied as a promising, ...

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 ...

Plant viruses pose significant challenges to agricultural productivity and ecosystem stability worldwide. These infectious agents exhibit a diverse array of genomic organisations and infection ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...

Over $600,000 in federal funding will help the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station develop ways to prevent diseases that kill plants using nanotechnology. Plant viruses destroy over $30 ...

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 ...

Scientists have learned how plants keep viruses from being passed to their offspring, a finding that could ensure healthier crops. The discovery could also help reduce the transmission of diseases ...

There’s more than just pollen riding on a springtime breeze. Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. A study in ...

March launches the most exciting stretch of the gardening season. Tiny green sprouts push through soil, trays crowd ...

We rely on pollinators like honeybees for all sorts of different crops.But that same flexibility could put plants at risk of disease, according to new Pitt research. "Our understanding of viruses on ...