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2018-04-25T04:00:00.0000000Z

The Conversation https://theconversation.com/scientists-design-a-novel-formula-that-repels-and-kills-mosquitoes-95323 April 25, 2018 12.36am AEST Walter FockeProfessor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of Institute of Applied …

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2018-04-25T04:00:00.0000000Z
A typical eye-shaped lesion of rice blast disease on 'Katy,' a US rice variety. Credit: Yulin Jia/USDA Agricultural Research Service

PhysOrg Https://phys.org/news/2018-04-spawn-ways-combat-crop-killing-fungus.html#jCp

By Todd B. Bates, Rutgers University

About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating disease in rice first became harmful to the food that … Read more...

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2018-04-24T18:00:00.0000000Z

EurekAlert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/uoic-nse042418.php

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

URBANA, Ill. - When humans get bacterial infections, we reach for antibiotics to make …

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2018-04-23T14:00:00.0000000Z
The black-legged tick can spread Lyme disease to people.

ARS News Service Agricultural Research Service, USDA --View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/ news-archive/ --Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/USDA_ARS

By Kim Kaplan

ELLICOTTCITY, …

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2018-04-22T14:00:00.0000000Z
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Fertile breeding conditions caused by hottest summer since records began leads to surge of rats and mice

A record-breaking long, hot summer has led to a tenfold explosion in New Zealand’s rodent population, with the country’s urban …

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2018-04-19T14:00:00.0000000Z
ScientificAmericanhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-insect-fossil-gap-explained/  A lack of diverse, winged hexapods—not low oxygen levels—could explain the gap in the fossil record

By Lucas Joel

Insects are … Read more...

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2018-04-19T14:00:00.0000000Z
Citrus canker. Photo: Plant Health Australia.

FreshFruitPortal https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2018/04/19/australia-citrus-canker-detected-in-northern-territory/

Citrus canker has been detected in retail nurseries in Australia’s Northern Territory, but to date the disease has only been … Read more...
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2018-04-19T14:00:00.0000000Z

EurekAlert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/ws-h041318.php

How and why has life on Earth become ever more complex over time? Darwin's theory has provided us with a general framework for understanding biological evolution, but it …

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2018-04-19T14:00:00.0000000Z

Ghana News Agency http://www.ghananewsagency.org/science/ghana-to-focus-on-bio-rational-products-for-management-of-faw-131321

By Belinda Ayamgha, GNAAccra, April 13, GNA - The Ministry of Food and Agriculture says it has shifted its focus from … Read more...
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2018-04-19T04:00:00.0000000Z
ChannelNews Asia https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/insect-farms-gear-up-to-feed-soaring-global-protein-demand-10136078

LANGLEY, British Columbia: Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in …

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