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Herbal Pesticides Advantages
Pests have always been a concern for agriculture and kitchen gardens. Chemical pesticides affect the health in the worst way and scientists look forward to the newest ways for preventing the destruction of crops. Herbal pesticides have become new alternative for preventing the pests to destroy th...Read more -
Herbicide Resistance
Herbicide resistance refers to the inherited ability of a biotype of a weed to survive a herbicide application to which the original population was susceptible. A biotype is a group of plants within a species that has biological traits (such as resistance to a particular herbicide) not common to ...Read more -
Kenyan farmers grapple with high pesticide use
NAIROBI, Nov.9 (Xinhua) — The average Kenyan farmer, including those in villages, uses several liters of pesticides every year. The use has been on the rise over the years following the emergence of new pests and diseases as the east African nation grapples with harsh effects of climate cha...Read more -
Exposure of arthropods to Cry2A produced by Bt rice
Most reports concern the three most important Lepidoptera pests, that is, Chilo suppressalis, Scirpophaga incertulas, and Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (all Crambidae), which are the targets of Bt rice, and the two most important Hemiptera pests, that is, Sogatella furcifera and Nilaparvata lugens (bo...Read more -
Bt cotton cuts pesticide poisoning
Over the past ten years that farmers in India have been planting Bt cotton – a transgenic variety containing genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis making it pest resistant – pesticide use has been cut by at least half, a new study shows. The research also found that the use of Bt c...Read more -
Genome-wide association analysis of the strength of the MAMP-elicited defense response and resistance to target leaf spot in sorghum
Plant and pathogen materials A sorghum association mapping population known as the sorghum conversion population (SCP) was provided by Dr. Pat Brown at the University of Illinois (now at UC Davis). It has been described previously and is a collection of diverse lines converted to photoperiod-inse...Read more -
Use fungicides for apple scab protection prior to anticipated early infection periods
The sustained heat in Michigan right now is unprecedented and has caught many by surprise in terms of how rapidly apples are developing. With rains predicted for Friday, March 23, and for next week, it is critical that scab-susceptible cultivars are protected from this anticipated early scab infe...Read more -
Bioherbicides Market Size
Industry Insights The global bioherbicides market size was valued at USD 1.28 billion in 2016 and is expected to develop at an estimated CAGR of 15.7% over the forecast period. Rising consumer awareness regarding the benefits of bioherbicides and strict food and environment regulations to promote...Read more -
Biological Insecticide Beauveria Bassiana
Beauveria Bassiana is an entomopathogenic fungus that grows naturally in soil all over the world. Acting as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; It widely used as a biological insecticide to control a great many pests such as termites, thrips, whiteflies, aph...Read more -
Biocides & Fungicides Update
Biocides are protective substances used to inhibit the growth of bacteria and other pernicious organisms, including fungi. Biocides come in a variety of forms, such as halogen or metallic compounds, organic acids and organosulfurs. Each plays an integral role in the paint and coatings, water trea...Read more -
Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry – each animal genetically identical to the next – ...Read more -
Integrated pest management a focus at 2017 Greenhouse Growers Expo
Education sessions at the 2017 Michigan Greenhouse Growers Expo offer updates and emerging techniques for producing greenhouse crops that satisfy consumer interest. Over the last decade or so, there has been a steady surge of public interest in how and where our agricultural commodities are produ...Read more