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Oct. 23, 2023 Researchers have solved the structure of a novel insecticidal protein that is effective in protecting major crop plants like corn and soybean from pests and is naturally produced by ...
June 3, 2021 Researchers have developed a computer simulation tool to predict when and where pests and diseases will attack crops or forests, and also test when to apply pesticides or other management strategies ...
Sep. 5, 2022 Researchers use historical soil temperature data to learn about -- and predict -- overwintering success of the nasty corn ...
Jan. 31, 2023 Almost all of Africa's maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research. Scientists have highlighted how almost the entire African ...
Jan. 4, 2023 A new study shows the potential for using Twitter and online news articles to track the timing and location of invasive insect spread in the United States and around the globe. Researchers say these ...
Aug. 10, 2021 The dining time of different insects impacts a plant's defenses and nutritional quality -- a complexity uncovered in new research with implications for pest management ...
Sep. 26, 2022 A foul-smelling, voracious, wide-spread pest could become even more ubiquitous with climate change. A recent modelling study found that changing weather could increase suitable habitat for the brown ...
June 3, 2021 A new study reveals that beetles, wasps and other beneficial arthropods are nearly twice as abundant and diverse in uncultivated field edges in the spring as they are in areas that are cropped - if ...
Feb. 16, 2023 Groups of spiders could be used as an environmentally-friendly way to protect crops against agricultural pests. That's according to new research which suggests that web-building groups of ...
Dec. 9, 2021 Crop pests and diseases in China have significantly increased, with climate change being one of the relevant drivers, new research ...