The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service is calling for public help in its efforts to protect the Bunya Mountains National Park from a devastating plant disease, or risk a harsh fine.

A research paper just published in Science China Life Sciences reports that pectin lyase secreted by Phytophthora sojae and its degradation products, pectin oligosaccharides, exhibit dual immune ...

Invasive species experts have labelled the water mould Phytophthora the worst plant disease in Australia and it has now forced the closure of a popular mountain trail in the south-east Queensland ...

Phytophthora can actually manifest in two different ways in a plant, through the root or straight from the branches and trunks. If zoospores have moved through wet, moist soil around your plants, they ...

Upon soil saturation, the P. sojae resting structures can germinate to produce zoospores that will swim toward and infect soybean roots resulting in Phytophthora stem and root rot. Soybeans infected ...

There are at least four species of Phytophthora species (P. citrophthora, P. parasitica, P. syringae, and P. hibernalis) associated with citrus in California and all species can cause various symptoms ...

Dr. Z. Gloria Abad and colleagues shared an innovative online tool, called “IDphy,” in the journal Plant Disease for the correct and timely identification of Phytophthora species.

Researchers provide open-access tool to capture new data on a global plant destroyer, Phytophthora. A new online tool -- the first of its kind for plant pathogens -- will help researchers across ...

In the last five years about 56,000 larch trees have been felled in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire due to Phytophthora Ramorum. Forest managers said visitors can do their part in helping to ...

Because you mentioned oozing sap and missing bark, I am leaning toward the cause of the damage to be Phytophthora gummosis. Oozing sap and sloughing bark are typically signs of this fungal disease.

The spore cells of Phytophthora, also known as zoospores, have two appendages called flagella on their bodies. A tinsel-shaped flagellum is near the front of the creature and a long smooth ...