The summer is always a little brighter in the garden when brightly colored zinnias are among the various plants. Zinnias are ...

Powdery mildew can spread pretty fast since it only takes about 48 hours for a newly germinated fungal spore to be able to start producing new spores.

Powdery mildew is a fungus that makes leaves look like they’re covered in white powder. Left untreated it will quickly dry leaves out and make a plant ugly and desiccated.

Powdery mildew appears as superficial growth on plant surfaces and is seen as white to gray powdery spots, blotches or felt-like mats on leaves, stems, and buds.

Powdery mildew fungi produce and disperse spores into the air in spring when temperatures rise above 60 degrees. Infections occur when spores reach a suitable host.

In this study, powdery mildew was first spotted outside North America on a farm in Portugal in 2012, as noted by a co-author of Bradshaw’s who was employed by a major berry company.

In this study, powdery mildew was first spotted outside North America on a farm in Portugal in 2012, as noted by a co-author of Bradshaw’s who was employed by a major berry company. The researchers ...

A study has identified a wheat nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) gene pair, RXL and Pm5e, that confers resistance to the devastating wheat powdery mildew disease.