2005-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-- It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah.It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist ...

Red palm weevils typically take a year or two to kill a tree. Symptoms differ from those of a fungus common among Phoenix palms in Southern California. The fungus kills older fronds but leaves ...

Bayoud disease causes a whitening of the leaves of date palms, finally killing the palm tree when it advances. FAO Researchers in Morocco have bred new date palm trees resistant to Bayoud disease, a ...