Drought creates increasing challenges for agriculture. As well as affecting crop growth, it also affects interactions with pests. A research team at the University of Göttingen investigated how ...

Stanislaus County supervisors declared a local emergency Tuesday over a pest that threatens to decimate tomato crops. A small insect called the beet leafhopper feeds on tomato plants and spreads a ...

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Sugar beet growers are being advised to remain vigilant for pests and diseases after the first rainfall for several months, in a year when light land yields are expected to be as much as 25% down. The ...

Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year population explosion of a pest which has the potential to destroy crops. The effects of the beet moth on sugar beet crops in East Anglia ...

Using endophytic grasses to manage virus yellows infections in sugar beet is showing promising results from an Adopt project ...

Protecting plants efficiently against pests without harming other organisms—this is the objective of the joint research project ViVe_Beet, which is coordinated by the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI).

Drought creates increasing challenges for agriculture: as well as affecting the growth of crops, it also affects interactions with pests. A research team at the University of Göttingen has ...