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.

Jesse Benelli, Ph.D., and Adam Gore, Ph.D., delve into the interactions among plant-parasitic nematodes, root diseases and ...

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, Phytophthora, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia are soil borne fungal pathogens that infect soybeans as seedling blights. Soybean seedling diseases like these accounted for nearly 6 million bushels ...

Floriculture is an economically important industry in Michigan. The health of these crops is threatened by Pythium ultimum (root rot), a water mold that infects the roots of popular plants. Despite ...

The commercial greenhouse production of cucumber is limited by diseases, such as powdery mildew, Fusarium root and stem rot, Pythium crown and root rot, gummy stem blight. Scientists at Simon Fraser ...