Sentences with phrase «agricultural insect pests»

«Although these nematodes are widely used in biological control against agricultural insect pests, their efficacy in the field is limited.

Not exact matches

As global climate change continues, scientists expect more droughts, heat stress and insect pests — creating need for new varieties of agricultural plants with diverse qualities that will let them cope and adapt to quickly changing conditions.

Mushrooms are potential miracle workers, capable of cleaning up oil spills and radioactive contamination, filtering bacteria - tainted wastewater, speeding reforestation of clear - cut woodlands, boosting agricultural yields, controlling insect pests and treating ailments ranging from cancer and bird flu to diabetes and dementia.

He explains that «This research could provide valuable insights in the way that the behaviour and life cycle of harmful insects, such as agricultural pests and disease vectors, is governed by temperature.

The Colorado potato beetle costs the agricultural industry billions of dollars per year and devours so many crops around the world that the insect has been branded an «international super pest.»

The techniques are opposed by anti-GM groups, but advocates say they offer a real alternative to spraying insecticides, and have the potential to provide a better and more precise tool to combat agricultural pests and insects that spread human diseases.

And if it weren't for insects eating each other, we would have to spend an extra $ 4.5 billion in agricultural pest control.

Not only have such adaptations contributed to the vast diversification of insects in the course of evolution, they also support the success of agricultural pests specialized on certain crop plants that jeopardize crop yields every year.

The report outlines specific suggestions for researchers and research funders, United States regulators and policymakers, and international organizations, that could help advance this promising new scientific approach for combatting insect borne human disease and insect agricultural pests while ensuring environmental safety and societal issues are addressed.

The hope is that the method could be used to engineer populations of insects in the wild, with the goal of reducing mosquito - borne diseases such as malaria or dengue fever, or controlling agricultural pests, such as those that transmit citrus greening disease.

JCVI, in collaboration with UC San Diego, recently completed a report on «Policy and Regulatory Issues for Gene Drives in Insects» outlining specific suggestions that could help advance this promising approach for combatting insect - borne human disease and insect agricultural pests, while ensuring that environmental safety and societal issues are addressed.

We focus instead on one major insect pest --- wheat stem sawfly (Cephus cinctus Norton)-- on Montana's dominant crop, wheat, to illustrate the mechanisms and principles involved in assessing climate change effects on agricultural pests and their impacts on crop yield or quality.

The approach has worked well in controlling some kinds of insects that are agricultural pests.

Lab manager Abigail at Pheronym is explaining how biocontrol works for agricultural pest control and how Pheronym uses pheromones from microscopic roundworms to improve the efficacy of commercially available beneficial nematodes for insect control.

The Committee has been investigating the use of GM insect technologies to fight infectious disease and to control agricultural pests as the technology now exists to render insects unable to transmit diseases, and to reduce insect populations to minimise their threat to animals and crops.

Many bat species eat vast amounts of insects, including some of the most damaging agricultural pests.

In addition, «many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the draft report says.

Other agricultural impacts of rising temperatures include changes in insect pests and the northward shift of optimal zones for crops.

«Many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the report says.

The study says: «Climate change is likely to significantly alter the frequency of insect migrants, including introducing some agricultural pests that are completely new to the UK.

At the same time, after years of dumping DDT on agricultural pests, insects were becoming increasingly resistant to the chemical.