Sentences with phrase «on insect pest»

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.

Chiasson's journey from the bench to the boardroom began back in the early 1990's while she was completing her Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, with research on insect pests in rice.

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California winegrowers use cover crops and compost in the vineyards to enrich healthy soils with biomass and vibrant populations of microbes and worms and to prevent erosion and attract helpful insects that prey on pests.

Observations on the occurrence of pest and beneficial insect species were also recorded during confined field tests of GR2E rice in the Philippines.

Based on these observations, there were no indications of altered disease susceptibility of GR2E rice compared to control rice, nor were there any indications that GR2E rice was a preferred host for pest insects.

Overall, there were no indications that GR2E rice was a preferred host for pest insects or that there were any detrimental impacts on the prevalence of beneficial species.

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

Organic farmers also rely on diverse populations of soil organisms, beneficial insects, and birds to keep pests under control.

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

I have noticed no bugs or slugs, or other pest insects on the leaves of my plants.

Genetically engineered plants designed to control pests can have negative side - effects on beneficial insects and further non-target organisms as well.

Many bird species feed on insects, and an abundant presence may thus also contribute to a better natural pest control.

Gardeners would be well - advised to bone up on pest - and disease - control techniques and not take lightly the idea that some pest insects can wreck an otherwise spectacular summer by demolishing target plants.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

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.

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.

One factor is that researchers have found warmer temperatures increase the number of young produced by the gloomy scale insect — a significant tree pest — by 300 percent, which in turn leads to 200 times more adult gloomy scales on urban trees.

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

«What you have to understand about insects is they're all coldblooded, so they rely on the environment to tell them what their body should be doing,» said Missy Henriksen, a spokeswoman for the National Pest Management Association.

Sightings of the corn rootworm, a pest that feeds on corn roots, and the Japanese beetle, an insect that can destroy corn tassels, have actually decreased, he added.

The Food and Drug Administration, recognizing the ubiquity of such insect pests, sets limits on acceptable levels of bugs rather than banning them completely from food.

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

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.

As the insect pest dines on the plant, the double - stranded RNA gets converted into small interfering RNA.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

• In our article on robotic insect flight, we misspelled the name of Daedalus Flight Systems (26 September, p 22).

Their findings, reported in the May 19 issue of the journal PLOS ONE, shed light on how the global caterpillar pest called pink bollworm overcomes biotech cotton, which was designed to make an insect - killing bacterial protein called Bt toxin.

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.

A LARGE body of literature has shown that genetically modified (GM) plants that produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to protect themselves from insect pests have little to no effect on a wide range of non-target insects.

«We are in urgent need of new ways to control insect pests on crops, with very limited options available from pesticide sprays and conventional breeding.

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.

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

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.

Though the field trials have been relatively small so far, the operationally similar Sterile Insect Technique has been successfully used to eliminate pests on various scales up to continent - wide.

Among research that has faced industry disapproval, says Benbrook, are studies on evolving weed resistance, on plant pathogens, and on susceptibility of non-pest insects to the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)- derived toxins that protect the GM plants against insect pests.

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Bruce Tabashnik is one of the world's experts on how insect pests develop resistance to Bt crops.

He is now focused on the potential for engineering insects and other pests to suppress disease and crop loss, and to protect endangered species.

«Aside from their key role in feeding on pest insect species, their silk is being developed to make specialist clothing such as bullet - proof vests and their venom can be used in pain relief.

The modified male insects are released to mate with wild pest females, they pass on these two genes, and over 95 % of the offspring die before reaching adulthood.

Oxitec is developing innovative technology to control insect pests, based on the use of engineered sterile males of the pest insect species («RIDL ® males»).

Its perforating effects on insect digestive tracts does not appear to be limited to these pests, as this toxin has been found in fetal circulation (implying that it obviously violated the gut barrier of pregnant women consuming these products).

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They have the best pest control products and supplies to help people get rid of insects and pest all on their own.

Before that, the picture is surprisingly coherent and surprisingly thoughtful, long on talk and heavy with the implication that a local pest - exterminating outfit, experimenting with low - level sound / radiation waves that drive insects nuts, is most likely behind the sudden epidemic of living corpses.

By feasting on insects, the bats help keep pest populations under control in the rain forest.

The common cat flea (the same flea attacks cats, dogs, and our ankles) seems to be everywhere this year.Recently, consumers, pest control firms, and veterinarians all have raised questions about new flea - control products that are based on an insect - parasitic nematode.