There have been reports that 2024 has been a bad year for apple scab in both fresh-eating apples and crab apples. Apple scab infections on fruit start off olive-green and turn into a rough, cork-like ...

This has been one of the worst years for disease that I can remember as a gardener. Both here at the Garden and throughout the Chicago area, I have noticed many crabapples as well as serviceberries ...

As we approach heading and flowering time in wheat, early flowering is the time to consider spraying fungicides to protect wheat from Fusarium Head Blight (FHB, or scab). Dr. Darcy Telenko, Purdue ...

It might be easy to grow and care for an apple tree, but keeping it safe? Well, that is where the problems begin. There is no shortage of pests and diseases that affect it, and any one of them could ...

Powdery scab is a pervasive soilborne disease that compromises the quality and marketability of potato tubers. It is caused by the obligate biotrophic protozoan Spongospora subterranea, which induces ...