gray mold

If you've ever seen a fuzzy piece of fruit in your fridge, you've seen gray mold.

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a stealth molecular weapon that plants use to attack the cells of invading gray mold.

Gray mold and other fungi, which cause fruit to rot, lead to significant economic losses and food waste.

Most of the diterpenoids showed activity against gray mold.

They found that the bacteria filled the fungus with holes, freeing the hydrangea of plague and proving that keanumycins work effectively against a plant pest that causes gray mold rot and leads to substantial harvest losses every year.