Despite their bad reputation, mold, yeast, and fungus are responsible for some of the tastiest things in our lives, such as blue cheese, bread, pizza crust, soy sauce, miso, and of course mushrooms ...

This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...

Botrytis cinerea, a notorious fungal pathogen responsible for grey mould on a wide range of crops, represents a critical challenge for modern agriculture. Its capacity to rapidly acquire resistance to ...

Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot, rust, downy mildew, anthracnose and cerospora leaf spot. They are all ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tomato plants are especially vulnerable to foliar diseases that can kill them or impact yield. These problems require a number of pesticides in conventional crops and make ...

Of all the fungi out there, Botrytis cinerea is the one that keeps farmers up at night. The scuzzy fungus has a voracious appetite. It’ll happily munch through hundreds of plant species—although soft ...

Genomes contain the complete library of information required to build and maintain a living organism—the figurative blueprints of life. In eukaryotes, genomes are stored in the nuclei, where they are ...

The leaves on this rosebush turned brown and the blossoms dried up due to gray mold and “black spot.” Photo courtesy UC Master Gardeners. If you’re a gardener in Santa Clara Valley and the Peninsula, ...

The team investigated SlVI, a vacuolar invertase gene expressed during tomato fruit ripening. Overexpression of SlVI enhanced leaf size, chlorophyll content, and early flowering, linking sugar ...