Corn seedlings with roots exteriors falling off, a symptom of Pythium. Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in ...

Pythium insidiosum is an aquatic oomycete responsible for pythiosis, a disease affecting humans and a variety of animals. This pathogen, although fungus‐like in its presentation, exhibits distinct ...

Pythium disease can significantly damage and even kill your corn, soybean and cotton seedlings. To achieve good stand establishment and seedling vigor, you need to implement an effective pythium root ...

The grant is part of $10.2 million in funding for 18 projects supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative program, which supports public breeding efforts aimed at improving crop ...

Pythium insidiosum, an aquatic oomycete, causes a life-threatening condition known as pythiosis in humans and various animals, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. Exposure typically ...

The plant parasite species Pythium lurks in virtually every agricultural field and commonly causes damping-off, which weakens or kills seeds or seedlings, and root and stem rot, which can kill plants.

In a victory for on farm biosecurity, Australia's biggest ginger growing family, has returned to fertile fields that disease forced it to abandon five years ago. It has been seven years since the ...

Breeding efforts at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture to improve spinach tolerance to a pathogen called ...