SCN costs soybean farmers more than $1 billion annually. Crop rotation and resistant-variety selection can help manage SCN.

If you're questioning whether nematodes in your soil will damage or benefit your plants and lawn, the answer is a resounding: "It depends." Both things can be true. Most nematodes are actually ...

Every year, cotton growers in Texas and Oklahoma battle an unforeseen enemy—cotton nematodes. Unless you have a microscope, it is literally the invisible purveyor of death and destruction to cotton ...

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is the most damaging pest in U.S. soybean production. It affects more than 200,000 growers, and annual soybean cyst nematode yield loss costs growers an estimated $1.5 ...

A West Indian manatee feeding in Kings Bay, Crystal River, Florida.Credit...Steve De Neef/VW Pic/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images By Ellie Shechet Invisible worms are everywhere. Nematodes are ...

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 to ...

In the 1980s, scientists discovered that oyster mushrooms are carnivores. The delicious, inescapable inference is that they’re the only veganfood that can itself eat meat. The meat in question is ...