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Nature Scientific Reports Waleed M. Ali, M. A. Abdel-Mageed, M. G. A. Hegazy, M. K. Abou-Shlell, Sadoun M. E. Sultan, Ehab A. A. Salama & Ahmed Fathy Yousef
This study was conducted to evaluate the ability of some fungal culture filtrate, as …
arsTechnica
Japanese scientists working with nematodes (C. elegans) noticed one day that several cultivated worms in the lab mysteriously kept ending up attached to the lids of Petri dishes instead of the dog food agar where they were initially placed …
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Source: FreshPlaza [summ. Mod.DHA, edited] https://www.freshplaza.com/europe/article/9486331/the-industrial-tomato-sector-faces-more-than-30-million-euro-in-losses/Tomato growers stress the serious situation that …
PNAS
USDA ARS https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAARS/bulletins/2e7bf53
For media inquiries contact: Jan Suszkiw, (202) 734-1176 Nematodes with a taste for "insect innards" may offer cranberry growers a natural alternative to fighting hungry …
Science Advances
Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) are plant parasites and major agricultural pests. RKNs are thought to locate hosts through chemotaxis by …
FreshPlaza https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9320127/parasitic-nematodes-harm-kenyan-pineapple-crops/
In Africa, Kenya is an important producer of pineapples, being one of the main contributors to the 19.8% pineapple global production that Africa …
Phys.Org https://phys.org/news/2021-02-ultimately-beneficial-fungi-effective-pesticides.html
by American Phytopathological Society Over the past 30 years, the use of soil fumigants and nematicides used to protect cole crops, such as broccoli and …
See paper attached on survey of nematodes on sweet potato in Ghana
Chronicle Cornell https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/03/plant-parasites-cause-lasting-genetic-changes
When ground-dwelling parasites munch on the roots of plants, they don’t just damage the roots: They trigger chemical changes in the plant itself. …