Cracking the genetic code of a common disease affecting grape production could improve vineyard management and help protect the multibillion-dollar industry that includes raisins, juice, jam/jelly, ...

A century-old grapevine cutting is providing new clues into the history of a deadly plant pathogen that is decimating crops across the globe. First reported in Anaheim, California in the 1880s, Pierce ...

California officials are warning locals that desert willow plants sold through Costco may be infected with an invasive insect ...

In PLOS Pathogens an international team led by Dr. Björn Krenz from the Department of Plant Viruses at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH summarizes ...

California agriculture officials are urging Costco shoppers to take immediate action if they recently purchased certain grapevine or desert willow plants that may be carrying the glassy-winged ...

The next time you visit one of the many vineyards around the Finger Lakes region, take a closer look at the grape vines. While leaves may appear perfectly lush, healthy and green, there may be disease ...

request for proposals (RFP) and proposal selection process, and a review of current knowledge At the request of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the National Academies of ...

A drone image captures a grateful message scrawled in a vineyard in the Lodi, Calif., region by growers who collaborated with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on research to detect a crop-destroying ...