Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 18—The severity of the ohia rust disease in one of Hawaii's critically endangered plants can be reduced by using a "smoothie ...

Question. All of a sudden, our plumeria has developed yellow leaves with an orange coating on their backsides. What should I do to control the decline? Answer. Many of our favorite flowering plants ...

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 ...

Northwest wheat farmers should not plant certain winter varieties due to their susceptibility to stripe rust, a Northwest expert on the disease says. Xianming Chen, USDA Agricultural Research Service ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

The invasive plant pathogen myrtle rust has been detected near the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, concerning experts. Myrtle rust is a bright yellow-looking fungus that infects plants, like ...

Scientists have established that a barley plant recognizes an invader and begins to marshal its defenses within five minutes of an attack. The discovery, along with the scientists' successful cloning ...

The Oahu Army Natural Resources Program maintains a collection of the critically endangered nioi plant, which produces white flowers and fleshy, yellow to red berries. It’s analogous to humans’ use of ...