When construction first broke ground for the Lloyds Bank building in York in 1972, within a moist layer of peat was something each of the crew would have seen countless times before, although never on...

Plant viruses are economically important pathogens causing serious crop losses, yet no effective or durable control measures exist despite growing genomic and ...

University of Minnesota researchers detected the pathogen that causes sudden oak death in Minnesota for the first time. Sudden oak death is a tree disease that has devastated forests on the West Coast...

Abstract. Pathogen infections can drastically reshape plant-associated microbiomes, yet the mechanisms underlying these shifts and their consequences for p

Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.

Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interconnect neighbouring plants. New evidence from Zhang et al. demonstrates that CMNs transfer jasmonic acid from necrotroph...

Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interconnect neighbouring plants. New evidence from Zhang et al. demonstrates that CMNs transfer jasmonic acid from necrotrophic pathogen-infected to uninfected tomato plants, priming defence responses and recruiting disease-suppressive bacteria. These findings establish a key mechanistic link underlying CMN-mediated plant defence communication.

For most people, the numbers presented by the Ministry of Public Health authorities were far below the real magnitude of the epidemic.