Sentences with phrase «crops against pests»

The finding, reported in today's issue of Science, * could lead to better ways to arm crops against pests.

These toxic steroidal alkaloids, which primarily consist of alpha - solanine and alpha - chaconine, are thought to protect the crop against pests and diseases induced by fungi and insects (Korpan et al., 2004).

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To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

He suggests that crops could be genetically modified to release the improved signal as a defence against pests.

Although relatively new, they have become widely used because they are taken up by all parts of a plant, giving comprehensive protection against crop pests.

The contamination is particularly troubling, Chapela says, because areas of crop origin and diversification like Oaxaca house «bank accounts» of genetic diversitythe best insurance against disease, pests and changing climates.

Now something similar is happening with animal pests and Bt toxins, although the Bt crops are largely holding their own after about 15 years of global use: cases of resistance are rare, popping up only where farmers fail to cultivate correctly (see «Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops «-RRB-.

This element, extracted from the soil, is essential for the rigidity of the leaves and stems of grass family crops such as maize, enabling them to defend against pests.

This creates the double benefit of providing protection against pests and feeding the crops with nutrients in a format that can be readily absorbed through the leaves.

Any one of them could contain a trait that could protect against devastating droughts or crop pests.

I'm still not entirely comfortable with nuclear but I admit ignorance there and thus don't really advocate directly against it (PS somewhat the same position with GM foods / crops); what I know enough to be afraid of and advocate against is a BAU future of coal, oil, and gas, especially one without CCS or other sequestration, with mountaintop removal mining, with tar sands, with fracking (you may already be aware of the radioactivity associated with that), Hg, escalating prices, etc (and you would be against this too, I'm sure).