Farmers and nursery managers often use fungicide is to tackle plant rust disease, but we need to find ways to decrease our ...

Q: Last year I learned I had rust on my serviceberry and hawthorn trees. What do I look for this year to prevent that? A: It’s hard to prevent rust infections on vulnerable plants unless you are ...

Your lawn is one of the first things people see when visiting. After spending so much time and effort tending to it, you want your yard to be picture-perfect. However, even when you do everything ...

An epidemic of coffee rust, caused by a pathogenic fungus, has ravaged Latin American plantations over the past couple of years, and finally scientists might have an answer to control this ...

Question: You recommended a fungicide for an orange rust control on plumeria. The rust fungus seems like a natural occurrence, especially as the leaves decline in the fall. I have developed the ...

Early in April, I was looking for the first of the spring flowers in the mountains and had found pasque flowers and, to my surprise, mountain ball cactus in bloom at Meyers Gulch, near Walker Ranch.

Tire tracks run through a field of corn in Iowa. A fungus that attacks corn has spread to over 40 Iowa counties. Southern rust creates reddish-orange patches on the tops of corn leaves. This blocks ...

Starting in 2012, an epidemic began to spread across the farms of one of Latin America’s most important crops: coffee. That epidemic was coffee leaf rust, a disease caused by a nasty fungus. It’s been ...

An Asian trampsnail on a coffee leaf infected with coffee leaf rust. Hajian-Forooshani et al in Ecology Oily, orange coffee rust is a fungus that grows on coffee crops in splotches. Left alone, it ...

Have you noticed any bright patches of orange in your neighborhood?Orange rainwater on the side of the streets, or puddles on the sidewalks? Orange dust clinging to your car?Some people around ...