Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-10-products-crops.html

by University of Göttingen Protecting crops against pests and diseases is essential to ensure a secure food supply. Around 95 percent of food comes from conventional agriculture, which …

ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200922102427.htm

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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

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Widespread fungal disease in plants can be controlled with a commercially available chemical that has been primarily …

Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-07-farming-roots-billion-dollar-beetle.html

by University of Arizona Nicknamed the "billion-dollar beetle" for its enormous economic costs to growers in the United States each year, the western corn rootworm is …

Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2020-07-underscores-importance-global-surveillance-pathogens.html

by American Phytopathological Society

First spotted in the United States in 2014, bacterial leaf streak of corn is an emerging disease of corn that has now …

ProMED http://www.promedmail.org ANTHRACNOSE, MAIZE - CHINA: (HEILONGJIANG) SUSPECTED

Source: Northeast Network [in Chinese, machine trans., summ. Mod.DHA, edited] https://m.dbw.cn/heilongjiang/system/2020/07/06/058453790.shtmlDuring a Heilongjiang …

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ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org Date: Fri 20 Mar 2020 Source: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) [edited] https://www.mdpi.com/2076- …

Alliance for Science https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/03/mozambique-sees-gmo-crops-as-way-to-reduce-poverty-achieve-food-security/

The Alliance is based in the Department of Global Development within Cornell University’s College of …

Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/new-genetically-modified-corn-produces-10-more-similar-types

Supporters of genetic engineering have long promised it will help meet the world’s growing demand for food. But despite the creation of many …

Business Standard https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/faw-outbreak-rs-20-cr-maize-crop-damaged-in-mizoram-119052200772_1.html

The fall armyworm (FAW), an insect indigenous to the Americas, has caused an estimated loss of …