A wide range of plants can suffer from rust spread by fungal spores and, when it affects grass, it can cause a lawn to look unsightly. There are certain signs to keep an eye on to see if your grass is ...

"Lawn rust can look like small yellow dots on the grass blades, and sometimes it manifests itself as a lighter patch amongst normal green grass," says Salima. "It can also look like tiny ...

A coffee tree infected with coffee leaf rust will display irregular-shaped, yellowish spots on the surfaces of the leaves. Underneath the leaves, there may be powdery spores, yellow to orange in ...

Asian rust thrives in warm, wet climates and has been infecting crops around the world for decades. The spores are spread by air, arriving in South America around 2001. The fungus causes lesions ...

It has the ability to protect against coffee leaf rust spores from germinating and growing on the coffee plant leaves, unlike currently approved contact fungicides that kill spores on the outside ...

Southern rust spores can travel miles on air currents. Once infected, symptoms can be observed within three to four days if the weather is favorable. Within seven to 10 days, spores are produced ...

As a result, the spores do not survive over winter in those states, when the primary reservoir during the off-season for the Asian soybean rust spores has been kudzu vines in the southern states.

Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida including care of impatiens, poinsettias, squash, crape myrtles, ginger plants, hydrangeas and plumeria.