The grant is part of $10.2 million in funding for 18 projects supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative program, which supports public breeding efforts aimed at improving crop ...

Corn seedlings with roots exteriors falling off, a symptom of Pythium. Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in ...

Pythium insidiosum is an aquatic oomycete responsible for pythiosis, a disease affecting humans and a variety of animals. This pathogen, although fungus‐like in its presentation, exhibits distinct ...

Damping-off can wipe out young cotton stands fast. Identify common seedling diseases and reduce risk before planting.

In a victory for on farm biosecurity, Australia's biggest ginger growing family, has returned to fertile fields that disease forced it to abandon five years ago. It has been seven years since the ...

Two scourges that sometimes appear together but have not been definitively linked to each other continue to threaten lettuce: Pythium wilt and Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV). The state budget ...

The enzymes in SLF-100 have been proven to be an effective antagonist for pythium. Hydrolytic enzymes like cellulase and glucanase have been known to combat the pythium fungus. For most, dealing with ...

The plant parasite species Pythium lurks in virtually every agricultural field and commonly causes damping-off, which weakens or kills seeds or seedlings, and root and stem rot, which can kill plants.

A study was conducted to isolate and characterize bacterial strains from greenhouse soils with potential for suppression of Pythium damping-off of cucumber. Out of 100 bacterial isolates collected ...