The symptoms were strange. They were the same across multiple oak species—white, swamp white, black, red, post, shingle, ...

This week while out checking the garden, I noticed many of the youngest leaves on a few of my tomato plants were twisted and their leaf veins were growing into weird patterns. These telltale symptoms ...

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have discovered that three widely used pre-emergent herbicides—flufenacet, EPTC, and ...

The increasing use of chemical herbicides is often blamed for the declining plant biodiversity in farms. However, other factors beyond herbicide exposure may be more important to species diversity, ...

If you decide to use a pesticide, select one that is effective against the pest you are aiming to control and that poses the ...

Researchers have discovered a fine-tuning mechanism involved in plant root growth that has them questioning whether a popular herbicide may have unintended consequences, causing some plants to need ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Farmers, crop consultants and others with an interest in weed management saw how various herbicide treatments have worked thus far this season at a July 7 field day. About 100 ...

“It’s been a bad year for milfoil on Minnesota lakes—except on Grays Bay and Phelps Bay on Lake Minnetonka,” KSTP Eyewitness News 5 in Minneapolis-St. Paul reported recently. The reason for the Grays ...

Dinitroaniline herbicides are used for the selective control of weeds in arable crops. Dinitroaniline herbicide resistance in the invasive weed goosegrass was previously shown to stem from a ...

As gardeners, we make choices all the time about what plant lives and what plant ends up on the compost pile. I've ripped out many plants that a few years before in my naivete I had purchased and ...

Nature's own solution to weed control has emerged from a Manchurian walnut leaf. Researchers discovered a compound, 2Z-decaprenol, that effectively di ...

With summer upon us, you are hopefully finding your vegetable plants in good health and in full production. It does seem most years, however, that the tomato typically becomes infected with one or ...