pest management

Byproducts from the beer and agricultural industry have been shown to reduce numbers of root-knot nematodes and increase yields of lettuce crops

Researchers developed a uniform pollen-sized microparticle filled with enzymes that detoxify organophosphate insecticides before they are absorbed and harm the bee

This most damaging soybean pathogen was first found in the US in 1954 and most recent estimates show that it results in $1.5 billion in annual yield losses

Researchers say plants' internal clock should be exploited in agriculture—a process they describe as "chronoculture"—to contribute to global food security

The development and field use of dsRNAs, via both the insertion of transgenes into the plant genome and the application of dsRNA sprays, is a rapidly growing area of research

Recently validated rapid "leaf-disk assay" uses chlorophyll fluorescence emissions to determine whether a weed is resistant to various systemic and contact herbicides

According to a new study analyzing 25 years of pesticide use, while the total amounts of pesticides used has gone down, their toxicity has increased considerably

Researchers have recruited a fungus to bolster fertilizer efficiency, meaning tastier tomatoes can be grown with less fertilizer

Researchers find that phytol, a chlorophyll constituent, has an inhibitory effect on harmful plant nematodes, without killing them

Though Pst is known to be highly host-specific, it is interestingly able to infect two unrelated host plants, wheat and barberry, at different spore stages