Corn seedlings with roots exteriors falling off, a symptom of Pythium. Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in ...

Pythium, Phytophthora, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia are soil borne fungal pathogens that infect soybeans as seedling blights. Soybean seedling diseases like these accounted for nearly 6 million bushels ...

Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the influence of preemergence (PRE) herbicides metolachlor at 1,700 g ai/ha, pyrithiobac at 70 g ai/ha, or pendimethalin at 840 g ai/ha applied alone or ...

There is something wonderful about fresh, homegrown tomatoes. They always taste so much better than those bought at the store, and they have this delicious smell to them. So, it is always hard to see ...

The Journal of Plant Pathology (JPP) is the international journal of the Italian Phytopathological Society (S.I.Pa.V), covering fundamental and applied aspects of plant pathology. It is the ...

Prime Minister Kim Min-seok visits Haechang-ri, South Jeolla Province, on Oct. 7, 2025, to check the scope of damage from rice seedling blight in this photo provided by his office. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE ...

Late blight, the aggressive plant pathogen that ravaged the 2009 tomato crop in backyards and some commercial farms across Long Island and the northeast, is highly likely to return in 2010, a top ...