One of the most intriguing discoveries in the study of aster yellows is the apparent link between drought in the U.S. Great ...

Flavescence dorée, a dreaded grapevine disease among winegrowers, is spreading beyond cultivated vineyards. A joint study by the federal research institute WSL and Agroscope published in the Journal ...

The corn leafhopper and the disease symptoms were reported throughout the country last year. Corn stunt disease can result in ...

Dr. Fei Yang, UMN Corn Extension entomologist, joined UMN Extension Crops Educator Dr. Anthony Hanson for a discussion on corn insect pests. Dr. Yang provided an update on the current challenges ...

There are many kinds, but one that you are likely to notice, at least in North America, is the candy-striped leafhopper, Graphocephala coccinea. Its bright red and blue striping is hard to miss ...

Harper’s recent research proves this out: When researchers inoculated young trees, through leafhopper feeding or graft transmissions, detection levels were low. “It’s very unlikely to detect the ...

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“The inoculum has to be present for the corn leafhopper to pick it up, and then you have to have populations of the corn leafhopper with the disease that would spread it through the crop canopy,” she ...

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, ...