Holly added: "Ideally, tomato plants need to be staked to keep them upright. If this isn't done then the plants can end up on the ground and potentially contracting diseases from other plants that ...

Here’s how you can properly prune your tomato plants. There are three key reasons why pruning tomato plants is essential for a bountiful and healthy crop. Firstly, leaves and branches that touch the ...

dig up and destroy infected plants wash their hands after handling ... in a contaminated field - they must not grow tobacco or tomato plants in the field for at least two years ...

Use the pest and disease factsheets to diagnose the problems with your plants and follow the recommended solutions to treat them. The factsheets provide both organic and chemical treatments as ...

Crop plants are grown as extensive monocultures, which increases the risk of disease epidemics. Major diseases include mildew, rust, Septoria in cereals, and late blight in potato. These diseases ...

"We've already let go of about 250 but there's unfortunately more to come as we rip out more plants." It is the first time the tomato brown ... a very transmissible disease. So it can be through ...

In rare instances, fungi exchanged genetic material even with bacteria and plants. This enables fungi to adapt quickly and, for example, to become resistant to anti-fungal agents – so-called ...

Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables to grow, and if you want to pick the biggest, tastiest crop it’s essential to feed your plants. Using a good liquid feed will give you sweet, ripe ...

and more insects and diseases endanger plant health and yields. Thus, there is growing pressure to identify ways to moderate these environmental effects, ideally without increasing the use of chemical ...

Australia's tomato supply chain is bracing ... the country via infected seeds. The disease causes yellowing and deformity on the leaves of the host plants, while the crop itself can form wrinkled ...

Burns, MD of The Burns Archive. Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer of combatants. Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds ...