A day after knocking off some rust in an exhibition loss to Frenchman Richard Gasquet, Rafael Nadal continued his Australian Open warm-up with a more convincing appearance on the grounds he hopes to ...

University of Queensland's Dr Lee Hickey led a team that has discovered the gene Rph20 provides resistance to leaf rust in some barley plants. Leaf rust is a fungal disease that could destroy almost a ...

Around a decade ago, an invasive fungal disease called myrtle rust reached Australia and began to spread like a plague through certain plants. The disease affects plants of the Myrtaceae family, which ...

Wheat grower concerns about the arrival of a new strain of stripe rust in Western Australian mace crops have been allayed with the return of negative test results. Stripe rust is not common in Western ...