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Researchers using an insect model and transcriptome analysis have unraveled the mechanism of iron regulation between host tissue and the mycetoma grain, a fungal mass characteristic of the disease.
79 million bushels of corn were impacted by corn ear rot in 2024. Learn how to help prevent these toxic fungal infections from affecting yield and grain quality.
Wheat -- the most widely cultivated crop in the world -- is under growing attack from harmful toxins. Across Europe, almost half of wheat crops are impacted by the fungal infection that gives rise ...
Monsoon is a challenging season for preserving pickles, but with proper care and attention, you can protect your achaar from fungal contamination. Let's learn more about this.
For the past few years, mildew has been able to infect triticale grain, which up to then had been resistant to this fungal disease. So how was the pathogen able to spread to a different host plant ...
Corn producers should be scouting fields to get a head start on managing any grain problems that could result from conditions favorable to several ear rots this year, a Purdue Extension plant ...
Wheat – the most widely cultivated crop in the world – is under growing attack from harmful toxins. Across Europe, almost half of wheat crops are impacted by the fungal infection that gives ...
A naturally occurring virus co-discovered by Agricultural Research Service and university scientists may offer a way to undermine a costly fungal threat to wheat, barley and other small-grain crops.
Wheat is an important global crop, but new research suggests that fungal toxins have contaminated half of all European wheat produced for food.
A fungal grain infestation caused by last spring’s wet weather in Maryland was bad enough to earn a federal agricultural disaster declaration for 10 Maryland counties. U.S. Agriculture Secret… ...
Researchers using an insect model and transcriptome analysis have unraveled the mechanism of iron regulation between host tissue and the mycetoma grain, a fungal mass characteristic of the disease.