The bird flu virus remains a wild card that continues to threaten U.S. poultry and egg supplies while upping the ante with risk to human health.

A virus responsible for damaging cotton crops across the southern United States has been lurking in U.S. fields for nearly 20 ...

For the first time, traces of the West Nile virus have been found in mosquitoes in the UK, according to a report published ...

The decision reverses a ruling that held families of dead Tyson workers couldn't sue for negligence in the meatpacking ...

Several genetic studies have attempted to explore the fungal factors involved in antiviral responses, but the exact genes and ...

As wheat growers anticipate another harvest pesky pests are also part of the 2025 picture, Dave Bergmeier writes in a covery ...

In the new study, the researchers used RNA silencing, a natural defence mechanism found in plants. When a virus infects a plant, it introduces double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), which is a red flag for ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy ... of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. It’s unclear whether these viruses pose a bigger threat ...

When a mother plant with a virus makes, for example, 100 seeds, only between 0 and 5% of the seedlings are likely to become infected. For a century, scientists have wondered how the 'mothers' are ...

The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned from the cowpea mosaic virus—a virus that infects black-eyed pea plants—showed remarkable success in improving survival rates and suppressing the ...