As the 62nd Merrie Monarch Festival begins tomorrow, the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture is reminding travelers that quarantine restrictions remain in effect for the transport of ʻŌhiʻa from ...

Its apothecia feature a blue to deep blue receptacle, a macroscopically indistinct hairy mycelial surface, branched paraphyses in the middle and basal parts, and fusiform ascospores.

One of the challenges in precision agriculture is the detection of diseased crops in agricultural environments. This paper presents a methodology to detect the Ceratocystis wilt disease in Eucalyptus ...

SINCE the days of the early Christian church Dorothy has been the patron saint of gardeners. Although she is probably seldom invoked today, the gardener in whom the occupational disease, sporotrich ...

State officials said rapid ohia death has been detected in three trees at a Maui elementary school campus. The landscape ohia trees were infected with Ceratocystis huliohia, the less virulent ...

Hammond, C. and Johnson, D.A. (2005) Origin of Ascospores of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum for White Mold Development in Potato Fields in the Columbia Basin. American Journal of Potato Research, 82, 72.

A recognized cause of this disease is a fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which is transmitted by an ambrosia beetle, Euwallacea interjectus.

The pasteurization of beer occurs at the end of the industrial production, after fermentation. Generally, a mild thermal process (60°C) is employed aiming to ...

WAIMEA, Hawaii — In early February, the Kauai branch of the Dept. of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife discovered an ohia tree infected with the more virulent form of a ...