Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause diseases in apples.

Learn how researchers identify and document new vegetable diseases through observation, pathogen testing, and collaborative teamwork.

Prune apple trees in late winter or early spring to prevent disease and help healing. Limit pruning to 25 percent of the tree ...

Abstract: This study addresses the challenge of apple leaf disease classification by proposing an improved MobileNetV3 architecture. Apple leaf diseases significantly threaten production, and while ...

As evenings cool and leaves begin to fall, a quiet shift is taking root beneath Britain’s fruit trees. Across allotments and back gardens, growers are ...

All across the region this year, lilacs were affected by a fungal disease called pseudocercospora, which got its start during ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.