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FreshPlaza https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9150426/the-un-launches-emergency-project-to-help-fight-tr4/

Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/how-monarch-butterfly-evolved-its-resistance-toxic-milkweed?utm_campaign=news_daily_2019-10-02&et_rid=389253831&et_cid=3013912

“They are impressive pieces of research,” says Marcus Kronforst, an …

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/03/deadly-fungi-native-to-japan-and-korea-discovered-in-australian-rainforest

SynBioBeta https://synbiobeta.com/crop-plants-of-the-future-will-fix-nitrogen-using-synthetic-biology/

One of the PestNet Community's moderators tackles the Oryctes rhinoceros beetle. 

RNZ https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/400002/nz-declares-war-on-coconut-rhinoceros-beetle-in-the-pacific

USDA APHIS https://idtools.org/id/phytophthora/

ITP collaborators: S&T Beltsville Laboratory, Centre for Phytophthora Science and Management, and World Phytophthora Collection

Authors: Z. Gloria Abad, Treena Burgess, John …

ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190925154024.htm

University of York

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Scientists have discovered that soil microbes can make plants more resistant to an aggressive disease -- opening new possibilities for sustainable …

Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/crypt-keeper-wasp-brainwashes-far-more-victims-thought?utm_campaign=news_daily_2019-09-25&et_rid=389253831&et_cid=3003232

Those victims are typically Bassettia pallida wasps, which lay …

CABI Plantwise Blog https://blog.invasive-species.org/2019/09/25/shedding-light-on-the-biodiversity-impacts-of-the-tomato-leafminer/

GeneticLiteracyProject https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/09/24/sorghum-gene-could-help-cut-massive-crop-damage-caused-by-birds-without-harming-them/