Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

As our ancient human ancestors were evolving and branching out across Eurasia and into the Americas, so too were the ancestors of a common plant virus genus. Using genome sequencing, researchers in an ...

A research team composed of plant virologists from the Plant Virus Department at Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, the Italian National Research Council and ...

Plant viruses pose significant challenges to agricultural productivity and ecosystem stability worldwide. These infectious agents exhibit a diverse array of genomic organisations and infection ...

How tomato plants defend themselves against a devastating ‘young’ Southern African virus has now been investigated at a molecular genetics level for the first time by researchers at the University of ...

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 ...

You can nurture your tomato plants like prized pets, water them with care, stake them upright, feed them rich compost—and still watch them twist, yellow, and collapse. Sometimes the threat doesn’t ...