Chrysanthemums are an often-overlooked plant despite being among the most effective insect-repelling flowers due to their ...

The plant's disctinctive scent also deters common garden pests including asphids, whiteflies, and soil-dwelling nematodes.

Nematodes produce hundreds of distinct effectors, providing redundancy and a capacity for rapid adaptation. "You take one effector away and a nematode laughs and says, 'I've got 10 more,'" he said.

A new study opens new avenues for combating soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops. Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to ...

Doug Kranwinkle passed away Tuesday morning in the company of his loving wife and daughter at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California. His warm and generous heart simply wore out and ...