pest management
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
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Researchers say plants' internal clock should be exploited in agriculture—a process they describe as "chronoculture"—to contribute to global food security
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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
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Recently validated rapid "leaf-disk assay" uses chlorophyll fluorescence emissions to determine whether a weed is resistant to various systemic and contact herbicides
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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
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Researchers have recruited a fungus to bolster fertilizer efficiency, meaning tastier tomatoes can be grown with less fertilizer
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Researchers find that phytol, a chlorophyll constituent, has an inhibitory effect on harmful plant nematodes, without killing them
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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
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Researchers have identified one of the molecular culprits behind a bacteria known to infect several key crops—pantaphos
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"Virtual" pollination trade uncovers global dependence on biodiversity of developing countries
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