Galls are abnormal growths on a part of the plant. They can be caused by bacteria, insects, mites and fungi. They can be on any part of a plant and are the overgrowth of plant tissue in response ...

Certain Insects lay their eggs in specific plant tissues, causing the formation of a protuberance that nourishes the insect larva. How does the insect induce the plant to grow this abnormal tissue?

Walter Reeves gives advice on azalea and camellia leaf gall, and how to grow a new trunk for a crape myrtle tree.

and gives them a chance to view a number of galls and leaves to get a better sense of the study system and the typical pattern that herbivory varies among leaves and among plants (due to differences ...

Spring is often known as the season of new beginnings, but plant diseases can make your gardens look like they’re already coming to an end. Chelsea Harbach, plant disease diagnostician at Iowa ...

We recently secured funding from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to evaluate the potential threat of soybean gall midge (Resseliella maxima) to production of dry beans and other pulse crops.