Just like any living creature, trees are susceptible to diseases. However, there are many beautiful, disease-resistant varieties out there. When planted just right, they can live for decades even with ...

When it comes to planting trees for small spaces, you can't go wrong with choosing from the many dwarf fruit trees that are perfect for a smaller yard. Renters and homeowners alike can plant these ...

New data demonstrate that transgenic American chestnuts produce significantly smaller blight cankers than their ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was... Blight destroyed the American chestnut tree. Can scientists ...

Bacterial blight (BB) is a serious plant disease that mainly affects rice plants, especially in warm, humid regions. Due to the severity of BB, discovering and applying BB-resistance genes is ...

Key Points Disease-resistant trees are low-maintenance and can thrive for decades when planted properly.These trees offer ...

More trees are dying in Northeastern forests, and not just from old age. A new study authored by researchers at the University of Vermont finds disease and invasive insects spurred on by climate ...

Natural disturbance and increasingly invasive insects have outpaced logging as the biggest causes of tree death in all but one New England state. More trees are dying in Northeastern forests, and not ...

A: Your pine is showing early stages of Fusiform rust, a fungal disease. As the spots grow larger and swell, which they will, cankers can girdle and kill the tree. An interesting note, rusts like this ...

A troubling health alert is rattling a Southern California campus after officials revealed that students and staff may have been exposed to a dangerous, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. San ...