Plant parasitic nematodes are microscopic soil-dwelling creatures that damage crops by feeding on their roots. Scientists have now developed a greener and more efficient means of eradicating them, ...

Different teams need to make the same conclusion multiple times before a consensus is reached and the finding can be built upon or applied. More may rest on the tools researchers use than previously ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a spray-on polymer coating that could help plants resist ...

Scientists have discovered that beneficial root-dwelling fungi boost plant resilience to disease by remodeling the plant cell ...

Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The ...

Using proteins from a common tobacco plant virus, McGill chemistry researchers have developed a simple, eco-friendly way to ...

Gold nanoparticles are only effective in strengthening optical signals when the nanoparticles are arranged on a surface and ...

There’s more than just pollen riding on a springtime breeze. Just as some human viruses spread when humans reproduce, plant viruses can use pollen to hitch a ride from flower to flower. A study in ...

SAN DIEGO — New research from UC San Diego has found an innovative new treatment to fight cancer. Researchers found a plant virus to be highly effective in preventing the growth of cancerous tumors.

Most gardeners are aware of plant diseases that can wreak havoc in their gardens. If you grow fruit trees, you may be confronted with curled, reddened peach leaves (peach leaf curl fungus). If you ...