Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) believe they have uncovered the cause behind a massive and alarming ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery ...

Potatoes produce a molecule that is converted by microbes and causes potato parasites to hatch. The Kobe University discovery ...

The potato cyst nematode is a root parasite in plants like potatoes and tomatoes that can cause large-scale yield loss if left untreated. Centered around a newly identified, plant-produced chemical, ...

Hydnora looks like it came from another planet – but it’s very real, and very strange. This parasitic plant lives underground, has no leaves, and bursts out of the soil with a fleshy, alien-like ...

Hidden in the jungles of Indonesia is a plant that doesn't live off of the sun, instead it gains its sustenance through ...

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful ...

Unexplained crop yield reduction could be due to plant parasitic nematode infection. Plant Parasitic Nematodes (PPN) are pests of economic importance that attack and infect a wide range of ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Aotearoa's only parasitic plant has been rediscovered in Wainuiomata, after wild populations of the species were thought to be extinct from the region for more than a century. Te pua o te Rēinga ...