German agricultural chemist Adolf Eduard Mayer made a startling discovery in 1886. He was studying mosaic disease on tobacco ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

(Cited in 40 publications through April 1996) Comments by Bernard Vernooij, Ciba-Geigy Corp., Research Triangle Park, N.C. Plants have evolved a host of defense mechanisms for fighting infection by ...

But plants don't have this luxury. Because plant cells are immobile, each individual cell is forced to manage its own immunity in addition to its many other responsibilities, like turning sunlight ...

One Aussie state reportedly suffered more than $20 million in losses after the virus was detected on three farms.

Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in the Kagera region of Tanzania, according to the World Health Organization. Nine cases have been ...

EXPERTS in Tanzania's banana industry have convened for a five-day meeting in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, to draft a strategy ...