Last year’s growing season brought to Kansas a new disease to corn. Corn stunt spiroplasma and its associated vector the corn ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...

Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) is a disease of corn caused by the fungus, Exserohilum turcicum. Severe outbreaks of the disease can cause up to 30-50% yield loss in dent corn if the disease is ...

Gray leaf spot, caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae maydis is the most significant yield-limiting disease of corn worldwide [1]. The disease was first reported in Illinois in 1924, and has increased ...

•• The News & Eagle has traditionally published personal opinions of writers and readers through editorials, columns and ...

MU researchers have been changing the color of corn to see whether purple breeds can provide potential health benefits.

The increasing prevalence of grey leaf spot (GLS), caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis, and northern corn leaf blight (NCLB), caused by the fungus Exserohilum turcicum, in South Africa’s ...

This research, "Microbiota transplantation for cotton leaf curl disease suppression—core microbiome and transcriptome dynamics," published in Communications Biology, focuses on transferring ...