Did the weather forecast predict the first cold snap of the season? This is the time to offer your plants an extra layer of protection from the cold weather. Frost protection is important not only for ...

Frost is most damaging to annual flowers and tender plant tissues like buds. Covering plants with fabric before frost hits physically protects them from frost damage. Other useful frost protection ...

With November well and truly underway, there’s still plenty of jobs to do in your yard. Apart from raking leaves to protect your lawn and planting tulips for spring color, there’s another job that ...

Farmers and nursery managers often use fungicide is to tackle plant rust disease, but we need to find ways to decrease our ...

What steps can researchers take to combat crop viruses? This is what a recent study published in Nucleic Acids Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Germany investigated a novel ...

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ST. LOUIS – During spring freezes, it’s important to protect your plants from sudden drops in temperature that can stunt growth or even kill new buds that are coming in. First things first, if you can ...

Plants are the backbone of our communities. They make up our food supply and the ecosystems we rely on. However, they’re under constant attack from weeds, insect pests, diseases, and other dangers.

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in agriculture and horticulture. They were developed by researchers at the Martin ...