In a victory for on farm biosecurity, Australia's biggest ginger growing family, has returned to fertile fields that disease forced it to abandon five years ago. It has been seven years since the ...

Two scourges that sometimes appear together but have not been definitively linked to each other continue to threaten lettuce: Pythium wilt and Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV). The state budget ...

The enzymes in SLF-100 have been proven to be an effective antagonist for pythium. Hydrolytic enzymes like cellulase and glucanase have been known to combat the pythium fungus. For most, dealing with ...

The plant parasite species Pythium lurks in virtually every agricultural field and commonly causes damping-off, which weakens or kills seeds or seedlings, and root and stem rot, which can kill plants.

Corn seedlings with roots exteriors falling off, a symptom of Pythium. Pythium is a pathogen that lives in soil and often wreaks havoc on row-crop operations. The disease causes about $25 million in ...

Pythium heterothallicum is described as a new species. The species designation "heterothallicum" was chosen to emphasize the absence of homothallic isolates, in contrast to P. sylvaticum in which ...

Pythium insidiosum is an aquatic oomycete responsible for pythiosis, a disease affecting humans and a variety of animals. This pathogen, although fungus‐like in its presentation, exhibits distinct ...

Gardening season is in high gear and everyone has a question of some sort. Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University's Extension Service. OSU ...

Pythium disease can significantly damage and even kill your corn, soybean and cotton seedlings. To achieve good stand establishment and seedling vigor, you need to implement an effective pythium root ...