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Apple scab is a widespread disease that affects apple trees, causing unsightly blemishes on leaves and fruit. Understanding how to identify, prevent, and treat apple scab is essential for ...

​Over in St. Paris, the Pony Wagon Days. A parade, crafts, golf scramble and a nice festival honoring the town’s heritage.

Neonectria ditissima is the fungal cause of costly European Canker (EC) in apple trees. A range of secondary metabolites were found at higher concentrations in infected twigs than in disease free ...

In the intervening two weeks I saw some examples of tree disease problems worth mentioning. One was a large California sycamore in a Napa Valley landscape. Its general appearance is a sick looking ...

The American elm trees, each about 2 years old and 4 to 6 feet tall, were cloned by University of Minnesota researchers to be resistant to Dutch elm disease, a fungal disease that killed millions ...

Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening disease, poses a serious threat to the Florida citrus industry. HLB is associated with tree infection by its presumed causal agent Candidatus ...

The study’s findings offer a potential win-win strategy: protecting trees can help conserve biodiversity while also reducing the likelihood of disease transmission. That is good news in the face ...

This week on Backyard Farmer we’ll try to diagnose an oak disease and get your landscape plants well watered for the fall. The panelist answers viewers' questions about insects and pests ...

Vaccines aren't only for people and animals. For the first time, trees in Tallinn are being given a protective shot to try and save them from a deadly fungal disease. A year and a half ago, Tallinn ...

Plant nutrients are essential to plant growth. But like most things, too much of a good thing can be bad. Once the growing ...