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2017-11-28T18:00:00.0000000Z

InfoPest https://mailchi.mp/infopest/infopest-news-amendment?e=654da733f0 Political decisions have clouded the science on popular herbicide, glyphosate. However, it appears that the cloud has lifted. The article published in Infopest News yesterday: …

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Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-28T14:00:00.0000000Z

CropBiotechUptake http://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=16009

Scientists from France and the U.K. reviewed 52 articles on CRISPR use in crops published from 2014 to mid-2017 in peer-reviewed journals. The result is …

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Maize
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Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-27T08:00:00.0000000Z
Figure 2: TEM images of resistant Caliph leaves at 3 days after inoculation with M. pinodes. (A) Infection vesicle (V) emerged from the tip of an appressorium (Ap) to cell walls between guard cell (gc) and epidermal cell (ep), and infection …more

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html#jCp Figure 3: TEM images of resistant Caliph leaves at 3 days after inoculation with M. pinodes. (A) Infection vesicle (V) emerged from the tip of an appressorium (Ap) to cell walls between guard cell (gc) and epidermal cell (ep), and infection …more

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html#jCp Figure 1: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of susceptible R108-1 leaves at 3 days after inoculation with M. pinodes. (A) Infection hyphae (arrows) that look like infection vesicles formed in the cell wall of the adaxial …more

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html#jCp

PhysOrg https://phys.org/news/2017-11-aberrant-hyphae-triggered-host-immune.html Kazuhiro Toyoda and colleagues at Okayama University examined the histology and ultrastructure of early infection events and fungal development, including …

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Ascochyta_Mycosphaerella_pea_blight
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Okayama_University
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Hydrogen_peroxide
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-27T08:00:00.0000000Z

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/29/common-pesticide-can-make-migrating-birds-lose-their-way-research-shows The experimental study is the first to directly show harm to songbirds, extending the known impacts of …

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Neonicotinoids
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Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-27T08:00:00.0000000Z

InfoPest News https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/pestnet/conversations/messages/13569 Diamondback moth resistance mangement strategy in canola While the winter-cropping season is drawing to a close for many this year, diamondback moth (DBM) …

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Vegetable_leafminer
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-26T04:00:00.0000000Z
Dear Pestnetters,
Would anyone know if the Parasitic protozoan Scarcocystis singaporensis is commercially available for rat control?
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark Posted on user's behalf
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Scarcocystis_singaporensis
Rat_control
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-26T04:00:00.0000000Z

EurekAlert MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING, Mich.- An issue of global concern is the anticipated shortage of agricultural output to meet the steady rise in human population. Michigan State University scientists understand that …

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Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-23T18:00:00.0000000Z

ABC http://www.abc.net.au/news/ rural/2017-11-16/big-data- farm-award-helping-to-tackle- climate-change/9156844

By Brett Worthington In the world of modern farming, the term 'big data' is among the biggest of buzz words.

It is about taking raw …

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Big_data
CIAT
Weather_forecasts
Sydney NSW, Australia
Identification request
2017-11-23T08:00:00.0000000Z
Achaea ablunaris - Bolivia Achaea ablunaris - Bolivia
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Javier Franco Ponce <javierfrancoponce@gmail.com> Date: 23 November 2017 at 08:53 Subject: Moth id

To: gvhjackson <gjackson@zip.com.au>Javier from Bolivia is unable to post this request …

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Peach
Grape
Sydney NSW, Australia
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2017-11-22T18:00:00.0000000Z
DNA repeats in the promoter make the gene extra active

FreshPlaza http://www.freshplaza.com/article/185370/Research-reveals-mechanism-making-banana-fungus-less-responsive-to-crop-protection I had to look up the word "concatenated" - it means 'link things together in a chain'

An …
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Black_Sigatoka
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