Potting mixes custom-tailored to fight plant diseases can work much better than systemic fungicides. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologists Leona Horst, James Locke and Charles Krause ...

Transforming your indoor garden into a resilient ecosystem starts with understanding ‘The Green Guard.’ The efficient use of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common soil fungus releases airborne chemicals that block dangerous crop diseases, pointing to a future with fewer synthetic ...

Farmers have long fought a quiet war against the fungi that rot crops in fields and storage sheds. Each year, these diseases destroy harvests of lettuce, beans, oilseed rape, wheat, and many other ...