Pest and Parasite News

Posted May 6, 2008:

• New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People

Posted April 28, 2008:

• Pathway Found That Lets Mosquitoes Fatten Up, Slow Down For Winter

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Elusive Protein Protects Malaria Parasite From Heme
• Insects Use Plants Like A Telephone

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Discovery To Hasten New Malaria Treatments, Vaccines For Children
• Fruit-eating Bats Eat Dirt To Detoxify Bad Parts Of Vegetables

Posted April 24, 2008:

• Three Viruses Threaten Watermelon, Squash, Pumpkins, Cucumbers And Now Green Beans
• Transgenic Papaya Genome Draft Yields Many Fruits

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Analysis Of RNA Role In Spreading Disease Advances Study Of Damaging Plant Infections

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Sudden Oak Death Pathogen Is Evolving, Restriction On Movement Of Infected Plants Urged

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Fungus Fight: Researchers Battle Against Dangerous Corn Toxin

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Double Trouble With Insecticide-resistant Mosquitoes
• Doxycycline Effective Against Filariasis In Southeast Asia, Study Suggests

Posted April 7, 2008:

• High-flying Moths Don't Just Go With The Flow
• Bats Play A Major Role In Plant Protection
• Laurel Wilt Of Redbay And Sassafras: Will Avocados Be Next?
• Huge Virulence Gene Superfamily Responsible For Devastating Plant Diseases Identified

Posted April 6, 2008:

• Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Common Weed, Ayurvedic Nightshade, Deadly For Dengue Mosquito
• How Plants Fight Back Against Pathogens Using Complex Counter Attacks

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Electric Shocks Boost Plants' Production Of Commercially Useful Chemicals

Posted March 31, 2008:

• How Dengue Virus Matures, Becomes Infectious
• Rectal Artemisinins Rapidly Eliminate Malarial Parasites

Posted March 28, 2008:

• Toward A New Generation Of Vaccines For Malaria And Other Diseases

Posted March 27, 2008:

• New Technique Will Speed The Development Of Vaccines, Study Shows

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Red Flour Beetle's Genome Sequenced For The First Time
• Decoding Malaria's 'Post Code' System Provides A Potential Drug Target
• Discovery About Fertilization Points Way To Possible Malaria Vaccine
• Organism That Causes Buruli Ulcer Has Been Isolated And Characterized

Posted March 25, 2008:

• Cotton Studies Target Killer: Fusarium Wilt
• Insects Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Plants In A Higher Carbon Dioxide World
• Soybean Varieties Viable In Southern Indiana, Resistant To Root-knot Nematode

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Parasitic Worm May Be More Widespread Than Previously Thought

Posted March 20, 2008:

• Grape Skin Compound Fights The Complications Of Diabetes
• Canine Influenza Was Around Earlier Than Once Thought

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Blood Disease Protects Against Malaria In An Unexpected Way, Study Shows
• Tiny Wasp Used To Wipe Out Major Agricultural Pest In Tahiti

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Severe West Nile Infection Could Lead To Lifetime Of Symptoms
• Hissing Cockroaches Are Popular, But They Also Host Potent Mold Allergens

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Wheat Killer Detected In Iran: Dangerous Fungus On The Move From East Africa To The Middle East
• New Leads For Treating Parasitic Worm Disease Schistosomiasis Identified
• Like Dogs, Like Humans? Day Blindness In The Wirehaired Dachshund

Posted March 16, 2008:

• Model Identifies Targets For Eradication Of Malaria

Posted March 15, 2008:

• Insecticide Combo Delivers Knockout Punch

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Cooperation Between Figs, Wasps And Parasites Proves Three Is Not Always A Crowd

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