When environmental temperatures go below zero, ice crystals are formed on many leaves of evergreen plants. Nevertheless, they usually survive frost phases unharmed. Using a special cryo-scanning ...
Even under a microscope, the nematode Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii doesn’t look like much. But it can bring a lot of damage: Researchers find it living in the buds of beech trees suffering ...
A scanning electron microscope reveals nematodes (highlighted in green) inside the spongy mesophyll of a European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf infected with beech leaf disease (BLD). Eggs are marked ...