Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a destructive disease of wheat that can reduce grain yields and contaminate grain with toxins ...

Growing several plant varieties in the same field for disease resistance is a longstanding agricultural practice, but can have unpredictable results. A study published September 12th in the open ...

Humans can spread disease by sneezing. But less well known is the wheat plant's ability to do something strangely similar—from its leaves. "It's basically analogous to a human sneeze in terms of, you ...

What do you notice about the leaves of the wheat on the right? How about on the left? See those yellow and red spots on the leaves on the left? Those wheat plants are sick. They have a disease called ...

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is considered to be one of the most devastating diseases of wheat and barley worldwide. Multiple outbreaks of FHB have affected Delaware growers over the past decade, most ...

Plants use sophisticated molecular machinery to distinguish friend from foe, co-exist with other organisms and defend against pathogens. Similarly, plant pathogens have evolved intricate strategies to ...

New research that could increase the natural resistance of wheat to a devastating fungal disease has begun at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Wheat is the world's second biggest grain crop by ...

Famine may be largely a thing of the past but in recent years the re-emergence of a disease that can kill wheat -- which provides a fifth of humanity's food -- has threatened food security; now a ...

Growing several plant varieties in the same field for disease resistance is a longstanding agricultural practice, but can have unpredictable results. A study suggests that plant-to-plant interactions ...