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Minnesota farmers have battled a devastating sugar beet disease for the past two years. Now, they're bracing for its possible return.

A new way to eradicate the emerald ash borer beetle has emerged thanks to researchers at the U of M, and the solution could be found in the ash trees themselves.

A native insect called the spruce budworm has killed trees across more than 2,000 square miles of northern Minnesota forests, creating dry tinder fuel in the areas burned by the Camp House and Jenkins...

Professor Linda Kinkel discovered how conflict among soil microbes can benefit crops — and founded a company based on her work.

Norman Borlaug’s life reflects the kind of innovation that can grow from Iowa soil and reach far beyond it.

A Minnesota scientist is experimenting with using parasitic fungi to kill emerald ash borer, a beetle that has transformed forests and city streets in parts of the state.

A new study from the University of Minnesota found that several species of parasitic fungi were effective at killing emerald ash borer beetles, one of the most devastating forest pests to ever hit Nor...

University of Minnesota researchers detected the pathogen that causes sudden oak death in Minnesota for the first time. Sudden oak death is a tree disease that has devastated forests on the West Coast...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota reported that foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum), a wild relative of cultivated barley, can harbor several fungal pathogens and may play a role in the disease ...

In this episode Ed interviews of the USDA-ARS. They discuss the long-overlooked disease of alfalfa, bacterial stem blight. Additional Resources Time Stamps (0:00) Introductions (4:06) Overview of al...

Red crown rot, a fungal disease that hides in soil, rots soybean roots away and destroys part of the bean's leaf tissue, has no cure. It’s been found in Minnesota for the first time.

YouTube video by University Of Minnesota Dept. Of Plant Pathology

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Department of Plant Biology (PLB) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks applications for a director of...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota say they've discovered more than a dozen different types of a mold known as "plant destroyers."

If you had told me 35 years ago, as I hunched over a microscope in a quiet University of Minnesota lab, that my work would someday touch the lives of

Temporal height and growth rate can be accurately extracted from unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV)-obtained red, green, blue images of commercial maize fields. Plant height and growth rate have variab...