A thriving plant does not begin with glossy leaves or colorful blooms. Real strength starts underground, where roots wrestle with moisture, oxygen, microbes, and gravity every hour of the day. When ...

If your houseplant looks worse for wear but you can't identify the cause, it may be suffering from root rot. This common plant ailment can develop unseen beneath the soil’s surface, weakening your ...

Plus, how to prevent and treat it.

Root rot is a common disease that can impact indoor and outdoor plants. The most common cause of root rot in houseplants is overwatering. Diseased roots will look darkened and mushy, and leaves and ...

Take-all root rot is a warm-season turf disease affecting zoysia, Bermuda, and St. Augustine grasses. Symptoms include yellowing, thinning turf, and black, rotten roots. Proper irrigation, ...

Cool, wet spring weather conditions often create the perfect environment for Fusarium root rot to develop in soybean fields. This soilborne disease can damage roots and seedlings before any visible ...

Our bizarre winter weather continues. I have recently spent considerable time on the winter speaking circuit talking about some of the diseases that aren’t as flashy as some of our more recent exotic ...

Heterobasidion root rot remains one of the most detrimental fungal diseases afflicting coniferous forests across the Northern hemisphere. The pathogen’s persistence is driven by its ability to survive ...