We know introduced honeybees as the ever-busy helpers of our gardens, farms and orchards. In pollinating crops and fertilising fruit, they support more than a third of the food we eat and are worth ...

With looming threats of coffee leaf rust to farmers’ yields, Purdue University mycologist Catherine Aime is working to protect this staple of daily lives and the economies of areas throughout the ...

A scientist helps save Crater Lake’s whitebark pine trees from an invasive fungus. In 2002, “Oregon Field Guide” told the story of how an invasive fungus called blister rust was killing Crater Lake's ...

Around a decade ago, an invasive fungal disease called myrtle rust reached Australia and began to spread like a plague through certain plants. The disease affects plants of the Myrtaceae family, which ...

In 2002, Crater Lake National Park ecologist Michael Murray thought the park’s majestic whitebark pine trees were as good as gone. An invasive fungus called white pine blister rust was killing the ...