New research published in NeoBiota suggests western honey bees may be helping spread myrtle rust, a destructive fungal ...

We know introduced honeybees as the ever-busy helpers of our gardens, farms and orchards. In pollinating crops and fertilizing fruit, they support more than a third of the food we eat and are worth ...

What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common? They are all susceptible to parasitic rust diseases caused by fungi. Plant rust disease can easily be spotted by the ...

New research published in NeoBiota has found that the Western honey bee - an introduced species to Australia - and the devastating, invasive plant fungus known as myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) ...

Hotspots for the conservation of maire tawake or swamp maire in the Wellington region have been identified by researchers hoping to save this threatened native tree from the deadly myrtle rust disease ...

Myrtle rust, caused by the fungal pathogen Austropuccinia psidii, has emerged as a critical threat to ecosystems rich in Myrtaceae across tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. The disease ...