After examining the fungal spores, isolating the fungus, and performing DNA testing, we determined this third fungus to be Septorioides strobi, the causal agent of Septorioides needle blight of pines.

Half of grizzlies' prehibernation diet made up of pine nuts which are being attacked by fungus Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park can weigh up to 600 pounds.

Do you have a mature pine tree with bunches of brown needles? It may be suffering from a fungal disease called diplodia tip blight. “Diplodia has become more common due to environmental stress ...

CONCORD — White pine trees in New Hampshire have been dropping needles, but that is to be expected after last year’s rainy late spring and summer, according to the N.H.

US officials say climate change, beetles and a deadly fungus are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that's a key source of food for some threatened grizzly bears ...

Here’s where that scientific journey has led. Pine trees at risk I of a fungus called Fusarium circinatum in 2009; it was the first fungal genome sequence to be conducted on the African continent.

The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study.

The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native bark beetle of western North America that attacks pine tree species, particularly lodgepole pine. It is closely associated with the ophiostomatoid ...

The investigation into a mysterious ailment killing Arkansas pine trees has yielded some answers after lab results of infected specimens confirmed a pathogen.

Today, sugar pines comprise only 5% of the trees in Tahoe’s forests and they are being decimated by the non-native, invasive, incurable white pine blister rust fungus.

Half of grizzlies' prehibernation diet made up of pine nuts which are being attacked by fungus ...

Diplodia tip blight is a fungus disease that kills the new growth on susceptible species of pine trees. The obvious sign of diplodia tip blight is seen in spring, when new needles at the tips of ...