It may sound and look like alphabet soup when farmers discuss the latest soybean diseases in their fields: BSR, SDS, and now RCR. Dr. Horacio Lopez-Nicora, OSU Extension Soybean Pathologist and ...

Sclerotinia crown and stem rot, also called white mold, can be one of the most destructive diseases of alfalfa. The pathogen that causes this disease, Sclerotinia trifoliorum, infects the alfalfa ...

MISSOURI, USA — Something is festering underground beneath numerous soybean fields in Missouri and Illinois. No one knows how a fungal disease called Red Crown Rot arrived in the states, and no one ...

Plant pathogens, particularly those from the genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium, are the primary causal agents of soft rot diseases, which affect a wide range of economically important crops. These ...