Virus attracts bumblebees to infected plants by changing scent Date: August 11, 2016 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: Study of bee-manipulating plant virus reveals a 'short-circuiting' of ...

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

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 ...

Cutting-edge NASA imaging technology can detect early signs of a plant virus that ... it’s already been infected for a year and it’s been spreading the virus to all of its neighbors ...

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

Tomato growers impacted by strict restrictions following the detection of a fruit virus last year say they hope they can now ...

Preventing and managing endemic and emerging plant diseases is an ongoing challenge. Maize lethal necrosis, or MLN, has emerged globally since 2010-2011 in East Africa, Asia, and South America. MLN is ...

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 ...

As such, plants, animals, and humans might lack ... And the way to fight fear is to have knowledge." How 'zombie' viruses could infect hosts once they emerge This isn't the first time Claverie ...

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 ...