Sentences with phrase «insect pests»

Get the latest information and advice on controlling insect pests in vegetable crops, and controlling insect contaminants in leafy vegetables.

They enable our crops to compete with 30,000 species of weeds, 10,000 species of insect pests and countless diseases.

I do research on insect pest and disease resistance and drought tolerance to develop rice plants that are sturdy under unfavorable conditions so that their grain yield is not drastically reduced.

At each site, one tree was treated with an oil that kills insect pests, and the second tree was left untreated.

An occasional bath and regular brushing will keep insect pests down and shedding to a minimum.

That doesn't mean organic farmers allow insect pests and weeds to live peacefully among their crops.

Currently available data do not allow a comprehensive analysis of the likely impact of climate change on all commercially significant insect pests.

They are limited to certain kinds of insects, and have been found to be effective biological control agents against several other kinds of insect pests that live in the soil.

That's because rising carbon dioxide levels could allow insect pests to take a bigger bite out of crops, thereby reducing yields.

Once your home is sanitized, defend against a recurrence of fleas and other insect pests by applying small amounts of diatomaceous earth throughout the home.

The incidence of rice diseases (e.g., bacterial leaf blight, leaf blast, sheath rot, and sheath blight) and damage from insect pests (e.g., rice bug, yellow stem borer) were recorded for GR2E Golden Rice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladesh.

Onions: Onions don't take up a lot of room above the ground, and are said to deter many common insect pests in the garden, such as aphids, slugs, and cabbage worms, making them a good companion plant for peppers.

Plant turned preexisting defenses against insect pests into weapons for catching and eating prey

Some common insect pests of blueberries are spotted wing drosophila, Japanese beetles, leaf rollers, and forest tent caterpillars.

Guinea fowl are particularly adept at clearing ticks and other insect pests from the land although your neighbors may not appreciate the birds» raucous vocalization!

Over the last several years, a group led by biochemist James Tumlinson of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service center in Gainesville, Florida, has been peeling away the complex defense mechanisms of crop plants to devise ecologically benign methods for insect pest control.

Farmers also face threats from viruses, including Cassava Brown Streak; Cucumber Mosaic Virus; African Cassava Mosaic Virus; and Cotton Leaf Curl, as well as major insect pests such as weevils and stem, fruit, and grain borers, and insects that serve as vectors for disease transmission.

[Editors» note: Bt crops have been genetically modified to produce a bacterial protein that kills certain insect pests.]

Last month, the Rodale Institute was awarded a $ 15,000 Northeast Sustainable Agriculture and Research Partnership Grant to begin Bat Research for Organic Insect Pest Management.

Diamondback moth (DBM) is a major insect pest of cabbage, kale, broccoli and canola.

As many insect pests increasingly develop resistances against chemical pesticides and Bt toxins, RNAi represents a promising strategy for pest control.

This funding will support the two year project titled «Investigating Bat Activity in Various Agricultural Landscapes to Develop Organic Insect Pest Management».

The report was commissioned by India environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who earlier this year had imposed an indefinite moratorium on the release of brinjal engineered to make the Bt toxin that helps the plant resist insect pests.

One general benefit of the RNAi approach, Zhang says, is that researchers can selectively target specific insect pests by targeting species - specific gene sequences; this avoids the blanket destruction of other insect species seen with many insecticides, he explains.

The rice water weevil, such as this adult on a rice leaf, is one of the most troublesome insect pests in rice, but seed treatments have proven to be effective in controlling them.

The furthest developed at this stage is a construct that is lethal to the offspring of the released carriers, essentially a genetic equivalent of a traditional Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) for managing insect pests.

And in more temperate regions, bugs could even benefit: As the pine beetles eating their way through the vast boreal forests of western North America prove, changes in climatic patterns can help insect pests by allowing them to survive through the winter.

Many biologists suspect this predatory behavior evolved when ancestors of today's carnivorous plants turned mechanisms that normally detect and defend against insect pests into offensive weapons.

We are part of a global project to improve cowpea production in Africa and are making progress towards incorporating «built - in» insect pest protection that could help to reduce food shortages in the region.

«It's the most damaging insect pest by far, causing some $ 500 million in damage per year.»

In addition to the cascade of climate impacts from this global warming — rising sea level, more extreme rain events, insect pest population explosions, increasing coral bleaching — the extra carbon dioxide is also changing the pH of the ocean.

Organic growers have a variety of «clean» methods for keeping insect pests under control and it really does make a difference in health... and taste... to go the extra organic mile when buying green beans.

No early painting of a Bonney pepper exists, but the first illustration of a pod of the Chinense species appeared in a botanical featuring insect pests on various fruits in Guyana that was illustrated by Merian Sibylla in 1719, and re-created by Lois Manno in gouache on paper, at left.

The finding confirms a standard practice for museum collections and food commodities: Potentially infested items are frozen to kill any hidden insect pests.

A study out March 13 finds that urban trees can survive increased heat and insect pests fairly well — unless they are thirsty.

In 2010, the environment ministry put on hold the commercial planting of GM brinjal, an eggplant variety, equipped with a bacterial gene that thwarts insect pests.

To test this system on a real insect pest, the scientists chose the Colorado potato beetle.

The majority of transgenic corn (Bt) also has been engineered to produce toxins effective against certain corn insect pests.

«Diversity provides stability among animals in the wild: Study on moths explains why insect pests only occur in some years.»

Many plants, including the wild tomato species used in this study, produce chemical compounds to repel insect pests and other hungry herbivores.

And now, King is modifying his centipede / hobo spider protein to come up with new uses — fighting chronic pain and cancer or destroying insect pests, for example.

Initial evidence hinted that nicotine and other chemicals in the butts might help deter insect pests from moving into the nests — nicotine does have anti-parasite properties — but it wasn't conclusive.

She said native wildlife play an important role in maintaining functioning ecosystems — through pollination, seed dispersal, eating insect pests and maintaining soil health.

Monsanto's SmartStax Pro, which kills a specific insect pest using RNA interference, has been approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency

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

HAP2 appears to be necessary for cell fusion in a wide variety of organisms, including disease - causing protozoans, invasive plants and destructive insect pests.