If you see these sprouts appearing on or next to your tree, you should worry about the tree's health. Learn what these shoots are and how to handle them.

Spotted lanternfly season is back in Pennsylvania. The polka-dotted, gray-and-red-winged adult insects make their appearance ...

Pierce’s disease is an ever-present factor for Texas wine grape growers. Advancements in resistant wine grape varieties and science-based control methods have helped vineyard operators manage ...

Grapevine trunk diseases are found throughout the world and attack the woody trunk and vine tissue of grapevines, entering through wounds such as pruning cuts.

Over the past decade, Grapevine Trunk Diseases (GTDs) have emerged as a significant threat to viticulture, causing economic losses, increased management costs and lower wine quality.

Úrbez-Torres said last week their latest paper on their research findings, Fighting fungi with fungi: Sustainable measures against grapevine trunk diseases, was accepted in a recognized ...

A Summerland plant pathologist is working on a cure for a complex disease that continues to attack grapevines across the province. José Ramón Úrbez-Torres and his team have been working on a way to ...

An instrument developed by NASA could help monitor disease in grapes and other crops, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory research.

The grape disease causes mold, root-rotting bacteria, viruses and other plant pathogens that can destroy up to 30% of global harvests every year. The ability to detect the disease early can make ...

How does the disease spread? Researchers from the Jet Propulsion Lab and Cornell University focused on the grape disease, known as GLRaV-3 (short for grapevine leafroll-associated virus complex 3).

Wine grapes shown growing at the vineyard near the Robert Mondavi Institute of Food and Wine at UC Davis. (Greg Urquiaga/UC Davis) A team of scientists has made a significant breakthrough in the ...