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Cytospora is killing peach trees across the state — an epidemic that is halving the lifespan of trees and costing industry farmers millions of dollars annually. Thankfully, plant and fungal biologist Jane Stewart, an assistant professor in CSU's Department of Agricultural Biology, is studying the pathogen to determine how to defeat it. Get our free mobile app Scientists can identify  Cytospora through canker wounds, which appear on a tree's bark when the fungus is present. Stewart and her team will analyze these wounds to see how the pathogen moves through orchards and how farming pra...

Apple quickly rolled out the iOS 14.6, merely weeks after the release of iOS 14.5.1, as a response to the iPhone bugs and security issues that had hackers attacking users.

Born in jail, progressive Antioch mayor now champions police reform By Lisa Fernandez Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe  ANTIOCH, Calif. - Lamar Thorpe was born in a Los Angeles County jail. He was the only Black child among other children raised by Mexican foster care parents. He couldn’t properly read and write English in high school and was put in special needs classes. And now, he’s the mayor of Antioch. He's a champion of progressive platforms such as police reform and he became the first city leader in the Bay Area to formally apologize for past racist acts against Chinese immigrants a c...

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 03, 2019 in San Jose, California. New research found that most development teams, 81%, had knowingly pushed flawed code live.(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Overwhelmed and resource-starved app developers are approving vulnerable code and pushing it into live applications in alarming numbers, according to a new research report. Equally troubling: 44% of polled security teams said they doubted their application build environment is secur...

Fungal biologists fighting peach tree-killing pathogen 13 May, 2021 Many a Coloradan looks forward to that first, juicy bite of a Palisade peach every summer. Demand for the famous Western Slope fruit never runs dry, but the state’s $40 million peach industry is under increasing threat from an insidious pathogen that destroys peach and other fruit-bearing trees. Researchers in Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences aim to turn the tide against the tree-killing fungal pathogen Cytospora, which for decades has wreaked havoc among peach orchards across the Western ...