Disease prevention in tropical foliage propagation starts with creating the right environment for cuttings to root quickly and stay healthy.

As summers grow hotter, growers face increasingly complex heat-related challenges to their greenhouse operations.

The new crop protection products provide greenhouse and nursery growers with new solutions to disease, insect, and mite challenges.

Dipping unrooted cuttings and rooted liners can reduce pest and pathogen pressure, but growers are divided over the disease-spreading risk.

Here’s a look at cost-effective ways to prevent and manage the infestation of pests and weeds in your greenhouse this spring.

In this episode of the Greenhouse Grower to Grower podcast, we dig a bit deeper into how pathogen testing technology is evolving, and how growers can best take advantage of it, from the perspective of two industry insiders.

Janna Beckerman, a national ornamentals technical specialist at Envu, focuses on developing environmentally sound and economically sustainable pest solutions.

The MSU Extension floriculture team has updated its “Insect Pest Management” and “Disease Management” guides for 2026.

Michigan State’s Heidi Lindberg covers the most common types of floriculture crop viruses and their various modes of transmission.

Schoneveld Breeding looks at the fungal disease of Colletotrichum and how to manage and prevent infection in cyclamen plants.

Protecting against more than 26 diseases, Pillar® SC Intrinsic® can be incorporated into production ornamental programs with ease.

This March 2026 Digital Deep Dive downloadable report covers some of the latest news on disease control.

All-America Selections shares its strategies for preventing and combating basil downy mildew, in addition to its disease-resistant varieties.