There is no cure for bacterial leaf scorch on oak, and trees die within five to eight years. Symptoms are similar to drought stress and can only be diagnosed by laboratory analysis.

Common Oak Tree Diseases Oak trees are susceptible to various diseases that can compromise their health. If you notice changes in the green foliage on an otherwise healthy tree, consider the ...

If anybody believes that their oak trees might have oak wilt, they should catch it early on because it could cost them some money and even their favorite oak trees.

Symptoms on white oak trees can be confused with other insect or disease problems. Oak wilt can be spread in two modes: over land by sap-feeding nitidulid beetles or underground through root grafts.

They're called galls, and they're created by insects like wasps to house and feed their offspring. On an oak tree, some wasps produce very large galls, including gouty and horned ones.

Thus, it is only through insect spread from active oak wilt centers in the vicinity that disease would occur in replanted oaks. Healthy oak trees are not susceptible to oak wilt in an infected area.

Scientists in Florida have confirmed what some citrus growers suspected for years -- that oak trees could inhibit citrus greening disease, which has devastated the industry.

SCOTTISH scientists are part of a new £1 million bid to protect one of the UK's best loved trees from invading killers.

Building on that observation, the UPI reported, IFAS scientists experimenting in a Fort Pierce greenhouse spent a year showering citrus trees with water that was treated with oak-leaf mulch that ...