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

A virus that damages cotton crops has been quietly spreading through U.S. fields for nearly two decades—without anyone ...

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 ...

What makes this approach especially promising is that the tobacco rattle virus can infect more than 400 plant species. So, we might be able to use this exact system for tomatoes and potentially ...

Warmer and wetter weather has increased the spread of plant viruses in the past few decades, and climate change is expected to result in more outbreaks in the future. Erin Mordecai at Stanford ...

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 ...

The news was announced in a news release from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection ... The cows in Nevada were infected with a version of the virus known as D1.1, which has been spreading ...