ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210217151011.htm
The Science Times https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/29703/20210217/plants-sense-attacks-herbivores.htm
Margaret Davis Plants have developed their defense mechanisms in protecting themselves from attacks of herbivores. Much of this has involved …
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By Alex Fox Scientists have discovered a type of fungus in Guyana that sprouts fake flowers that are dead ringers for the canary …
Read more...By Kizzi Asala with AFP In light of the ongoing desert locust infestations in Kenya, the United Nations Food and Agriculture …
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BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, February 18, 2021—An Agricultural Research Service entomologist has discovered the Nosema ceranae parasite that causes major problems and death …
Read more...Queensland University of Technology QUT researcher Distinguished Professor James Dale and his team have successfully developed a line of …
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Source: Urbana Daily Citizen [abridged, edited] https://www.urbanacitizen.com/news/79274/some-ohio-corn-showing-signs-of-ear-rotsIf you had damaged corn or were rejected at an elevator because your vomitoxin levels were …
Read more...John Innes Centre https://www.jic.ac.uk/news/an-achilles-heel-for-wheat-rust-infection/
Researchers have found a gene in wheat that acts to promote rust fungal infection.
Disrupting the function of this gene provides resistance to two of the most …
Read more...By Reuters Staff BERLIN (Reuters) - Farmers in Germany will have to gradually reduce their use of …
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