Phys.Org
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by University of British Columbia Researchers have mimicked a corn plant's make-up in the lab to investigate "corn smut," opening the door to finding a cure for the …
Read more...The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has unveiled new cassava varieties developed by the NextGen project to boost …
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by Universitaet Tübingen Many disease-causing bacteria are able to inhibit the defense mechanisms in plants and thus escape dissolution by the plant cell, a process known as xenophagy. Animal and human cells have a similar mechanism whereby …
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The parasitoid wasp Trichopria drosophilae is promising as a biocontrol agent for controlling the ubiquitous pest Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura). Crucial for the successful implementation of any biocontrol agent is …
Scientific American
For insects trying to avoid hungry birds, flashy iridescent shells might not seem like the best evolutionary strategy. But in recent years, biologists have shown that iridescence—lustrous shifts in color, depending on the …
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Entomology Today
By David Coyle, Ph.D. There’s been a lot of attention given to pollinators recently, especially native pollinators—which include bees, wasps, flies, beetles, and several other organisms—but also those species used commercially. Yes, I …
Read more...By Matthew Jones Response effort underway after positive sequencing result on property near Darwin
Banana freckle has been …
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Experts say 35% rise in acreage covered by migratory insects my reflect adaptation to changing climate
Mexican experts have said that 35% more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared with …