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  1. Preventing Heart Disease

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/AEX-982.3-11

    good news is heart disease is preventable. The American Heart Association describes a coronary attack ... coronary artery disease. About 20% of all deaths from heart disease in the United States are directly ... the risk of heart disease is reduced by 50% within just one year. And no matter how long or how much ...

  2. Pollinator Quick Guide: What You Can Do to Help Bumble Bees

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-81

    introduced diseases that infect only bumble bees. Because of these threats, some native bumble bee species ... that used to be common, such as the rusty-patched bumble bee, are now facing extinction. In 2017, the ... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the rusty-patched bumble bee as an endangered species under the ...

  3. Blueberry Leaf Rust

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-43

    Tsuga  (hemlock, spruce), and Rhododendron (azalea, rhododendron). The disease has been reported in Asia, ... disease is sporadic and localized. Leaf rust can cause premature defoliation of affected bushes. Over ... time, and if not properly managed, bushes slowly decline and produce fewer marketable berries. Disease ...

  4. Cedar-Apple Rust

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-tree-10

    Ohio State University Cedar-apple rust is a common plant disease caused by the fungal pathogen ... apple, crabapple, eastern redcedar, and other juniper species. Cedar-apple rust is a widespread disease ... disease on redcedar and juniper, the symptoms can be significant and damaging on apple. This disease has ...

  5. Rusts of Apple

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-02

    PLPATH-FRU-02 05/06/2016 Michael A. Ellis, Department of Plant Pathology Three rust diseases occur ... green area becomes brown and spongy. The formation of pycnia and aecia on infected fruit is rare. Apples ... crabapple. Larger, gray to brown spots form on leaves of hawthorn. Few aecia form on apple and crabapple. ...

  6. mRNA Vaccines: The Next Generation Tool to Fight Infections

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-34

    cause disease. Several vaccines, such as those for smallpox in humans and rinderpest in cattle, have ... been so successful the disease is all but gone (Greenwood 2014). Traditional Vaccines Traditional ... disease.   Live-attenuated vaccines treat: measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) rotavirus smallpox chickenpox For ...

  7. Botrytis Bunch Rot or Gray Mold of Grape

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-03

    mold grape infected grapes shriveled grapes brown grapes diseased grapes controlling grape fungus Plant ... and causes diseases on a variety of unrelated crops. Bunch rot can cause serious losses on highly ... Infection of ripe berries is the most common and destructive phase of this disease. Infected berries first ...

  8. Powdery Mildew of Wheat

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-cer-11

    tritici, is the most common foliar disease of wheat in Ohio. It is most damaging in years with relatively ... late April or early May when wheat is in the joint to flag-leaf stage of development. This disease ... the flag leaf becomes severely diseased by heading. Losses of up to 45 percent have been documented in ...

  9. Botrytis Gray Mold in Greenhouse Floral Crops

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-3070

    Peduto Hand, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University The disease gray mold, caused by ... the fungus Botrytis cinerea, is the most commonly encountered disease of herbaceous ornamentals. It ... Depending on the host and the conditions under which the crop is grown, this disease can either be a common ...

  10. Mummy Berry of Blueberry

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-46

    Ohio State University Mummy berry is one of the most serious diseases of blueberry. Once the disease ... easily mistaken for frost damage. By blossom time, infected young leaves and shoots wilt, turn brown, and ... stage look like miniature black pumpkins (figure 3).    Causal Organism and Disease Cycle Mummy berry is ...

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