A mild winter, stressed crops and delayed spray applications all played their part in the brown rust situation that developed ...

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The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has highlighted the role for wheat varieties with improved ...

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As the measles outbreak in the U.S. spreads, experts fear that other preventable diseases, including polio, rubella, and mumps, could return. Here’s what you can do to stay safe.

President Donald Trump’s March 1 executive order calling for “immediate expansion of American timber production” generated ...

We already knew from previous studies that plant pathogenic rust fungi are beneficial to herbivorous insects. Now we were interested in an endophytic fungus whose role in poplar-insect ...

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