27th September 2021

Plants are grown in hostile environments where they are continuously attacked by pathogens. Many species of bacteria, nematodes, fungi, oomycetes …

7th September 2021

Around this time each year, as the combines are parked up for another season, cereal farmers turn their attention to …

26th July 2021

I’m an MRes student at the University of the West of England (UWE) investigating the bacterial microbiome of Tilia trees …

23rd July 2021

Wheat blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype Triticum (MoT) is a global threat for wheat. The first report of the …

19th July 2021

Oak trees support an abundance of biodiversity, including hundreds of insect species, and they are also a food source for …

14th July 2021

Septoria tritici blotch is a devastating disease of wheat, but resistance genes such as Stb6 can help defend crop plants …

17th June 2021

During Plant Health Week 2020, we had the pleasure of welcoming a team from the Scottish Sensory Centre to present …

11th June 2021

Hop is a familiar plant for all beer-lovers out there. Read this pathogen profile to find out more about Pseudoperonospora …

10th May 2021

A year on from International Year of Plant Health 2020 and 10 months after the first Plant Health Week, the …

7th May 2021

Did you know that soybean (Glycine max) is among the top 5 produced crops in the world? Around 3.3% of …

7th May 2021

We all notice that it is getting warmer and drier from year to year. Climate change scenarios suggest that this …

15th March 2021

It seems a safe bet that anyone growing potatoes or tomatoes will have seen the damage caused by the dreaded …

2nd March 2021

Genetic resistances to pathogens can be engineered in plants, but can they have side-effects? A study on resistance to a …

15th February 2021

“Rust never sleeps”, so goes the song. Yet, it is actually true that Phakopsora pachyrhizi, a biotrophic fungus that causes …

8th February 2021

Cherry Powdery Mildew is a quarantined disease in Australia. This disease causes significant yield loss to farmers from the US …

2nd February 2021

In the February issue of ‘Plant Pathology’, Senior Editor Matt Dickinson highlighted two new papers reflecting the power of Next …

1st February 2021

Plant virologists across the world have compared their observations of a virus that appears to infect plants across the Solanaceae, …

28th January 2021

How does one of the smallest pathogens on earth cause dwarfing in Hop vines? Read this pathogen profile to discover …

15th January 2021

New, more infectious strains of the Covid19 virus are emerging in human populations. Multiple vaccines are being trialled and deployed …

11th January 2021

Cercospora beticola fungus is one of the most destructive foliar diseases of Sugar Beet worldwide and deploys a toxin, cercosporin, …

31st December 2020

Erwinia amylovora is a highly destructive bacterial pathogen that causes fire blight disease of fruit trees, such as apple and …

23rd December 2020

This year’s Best Student Paper Prize in ‘Molecular Plant Pathology’ was won by Jiming Li who studied Fusarium oxysporum during …

23rd December 2020

This year’s Best Student Paper Prize in ‘Plant Pathology’ was won by Ines Vazquez‐Iglesias. Ines studied Rose rosette virus (RRV), …

15th December 2020

SARS-CoV-2 virus, referred to globally as Covid19, has caused countless lockdowns across the world. It has remained headline news throughout …