Vinca, also known as periwinkle, is one of the most popular annual bedding plants in Louisiana. But vinca had many problems last year because of the extremely wet, cloudy and cool growing conditions ...

Wet conditions have Illinois pumpkin growers on the alert for signs of Phytophthora blight in their fields. This disease nearly destroyed the pumpkin industry in 1999, causing up to 100 percent crop ...

Field experiments, using foliage blight susceptible cultivars, were conducted at Oak Park, Carlow from 1983 to 2007 to determine the loss in potato production caused by crop infection with ...

St. Paul, Minn. (April 23, 2004) – Plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS) are reporting a significant increase in the occurrence of Phytophthora blight of vine crops, ...

• Use systemic fungicides, Ridomil MZ @ 2.5g/litre of water at an interval of 7–10 days or as per disease pressure and weather conditions. Apply at the first appearance of disease or when conditions ...

Q: I have three peony plants that all flowered this year but are now covered with black spots all over. I've searched the net and seen "cut off all infected growth" and to not mow off the plants until ...

The heterothallic species of the agricultural pest Phytophthora use mating hormones α1 and α2 to regulate their sexual reproduction. Here we describe the absolute stereostructure of the second mating ...

Mycologia, the official journal of the Mycological Society of America, publishes papers on all aspects of the fungi, including lichens. Subjects appropriate to the journal are fungal physiology and ...

URBANA – Wet conditions have Illinois pumpkin growers on the alert for signs of Phytophthora blight in their fields. This disease nearly destroyed the pumpkin industry in 1999, causing up to 100 ...