Sentences with phrase «plant protection»

Our laboratory gives us the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of biological plant protection products.

The ultimate application of these studies is to develop innovative and eco-friendly disease control strategies for plant protection.

There is a lot of money to be made using biological plant protection when more and more customers call for healthier food.

This new method will enable the effective production of RNA - based vaccines and promote the development and adoption of RNA - based plant protection methods.

Understanding the basic processes in plants, and knowledge of pests, diseases and weeds, is required to develop good plant protection strategies.

If the agricultural industry is to be competitive and profitable, we need plant protection products that protect the plants against fungal and insect attack.

However, plant protection products have a number of negative effects on the environment.

The results of this research can be applied to minimise the use of plant protection products in agriculture.

Henk Vlug and Peter Smits, entomologists at the Research Institute for Plant Protection in Wageningen, in the Netherlands, are trying to kill the bugs with tiny worms which harbour bacteria of the genus Xenorhabdus in their guts.

A new plant protection method on the horizon.»

Yidong Wu, Distinguished Professor in the College of Plant Protection at Nanjing Agricultural University in China, said, «This review provides a timely update on the global status of resistance to Bt crops and unique insights that will help to improve resistance management strategies for more sustainable use of Bt crops.»

It» features an adjustable growth light and an easy view window that offers maximum plant protection!

This is true for fertilizers, substrates, products to combat parasites as well as plant protection products, disinfectants, livestock feeds and silage additives.

Dr Yordan Voynov was announced as the newly appointed director, along with his deputies Dr Tencho Tenchev, chief health safety inspector at the Health Ministry; Dr Ventsislava Taseva, head of the Agriculture Ministry's Directorate for Food Safety; and Anton Velichkov, Head of the Agriculture Ministry's Plant Protection Service.

«A new approach to plant protection involves vaccinating plants against pathogens with double - stranded RNA molecules that can be sprayed directly on the leaves,» explains Dr Minna Poranen of the Molecular and Integrative Biosciences Research Programme at the University of Helsinki's Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences.

With «untreated orange» I was referring to oranges, that haven't been waxed or been treated in any other way with plant protection products.

Apart from the better food resources in organic fields, the key factors are more fauna - compatible plant protection management, organic fertilization, the more diversified crop rotation and the more structured landscapes with semi-natural habitats and field margins.

One of the heads he is referring to is that of Donato Boscia, a virologist who is the research director of the CNR's Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection.

These could include new measures to extend plant protection when outside and backup alternating current power and new instrumentation to monitor conditions in spent fuel pools in emergencies.

The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 (ISPM 15) is a set of standards developed by the International Plant Protection Convention stipulating how wood packaging material used for international trade, such as pallets and crating, should be treated before export.

Our goal: «We strive to develop plants with optimal health to provide consumers with an optimal basis for a healthy diet,» says the scientist, «a functioning biological plant protection system offers a viable alternative to pesticides.»

These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop yields for more and better food.

The standard is a 2 letter country code (xx), a unique number (000) assigned by the National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO), HT for Heat Treatment or MB for Methyl Bromide, and DB to signify debarked.

The initial General Court decision concerned an access to documents request by Greenpeace Nederland and PAN Europe to the Commission regarding the first authorization to place the pesticide, glyphosate, on the market in accordance with Directive 91/414 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (currently Regulation 1107/2009 on the same subject).

A new plant protection method on the horizon.»

Kongming Wu, director of the Institute for Plant Protection at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing said, «This review paper will be very helpful for understanding insect resistance in agricultural systems and improving strategies to sustain the effectiveness of Bt crops.»

* General Features: * Miniature Greenhouse * USB Powered (4 - foot cable) * Adjustable growth light * Computer interface monitors growth rate, and includes calendar, wallpaper and bookmark settings * Watering reminder * Easy view window offers maximum plant protection * Removable tray * Includes starter pack: Marigold seeds and artificial soil (can you any kind of seeds)

A study carried out by the Regional Service for Plant Protection in Rennes found that tomato plants watered from the River Seiche in central Brittany suffered from wrinkled leaves, bent stems, slow growth and deformed or unusually small fruit.

One such research project currently underway involves biological plant protection, in which microorganisms (bacteria) work as bodyguards for the safeguarding of seeds like corn, canola, tomato, sorghum, or sugar beet.

The chemical industry turns over about 40 billion euros a year in chemical plant protection products worldwide, and a third of these chemicals ends up on the fields in the EU alone.

These include an inspection requirement for meat, dairy and seafood product processing plants that export to Brazil; accompaniment of products of plant origin with an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service / Plant Protection and Quarantine phytosanitary certificate; and set requirements for pest risk.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Plant Protection Act (PPA) provide a robust regulatory framework that ensures the protection of the environment and the vital economic interests of U.S. farmers.

Unfavorable regulations on farm - made and organic fertilizers, plant protection products and farmers seeds,

The less intensive farming practices (plant protection, soil cultivation), the more favourable fertilizing management and the more diversified crop rotations on organic farms enhance specimen - and species - rich earthworm populations.

Double - stranded RNA molecules have been produced through chemical synthesis, both as drug molecules and for research purposes, but such production methods are inefficient and expensive for plant protection,» Poranen states.

Like most graduate students, she taught some courses on the side, and one of them was on plant protection.

Roger Price and his colleagues from the Plant Protection Research Institute in Pretoria, South Africa, made their discovery while carrying out experiments in the Karoo.

When asked specifically about selected topics, Salmonella, genetically modified foods, antimicrobial resistance and residues of plant protection products head the list where awareness is concerned.

Now a team from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), in Spain, has found that the regulation of the protein activity in the plant by the mechanism known as SUMOylation is crucial for the plant protection against fungal infections.

The collected type specimens are now being kept at the Department of Plant Protection, Shihezi University, China.

Biological plant protection is undeniably a significant step towards ensuring a biologically sound agricultural industry producing healthier food.

Anton Fagerström at Malmö University, Sweden, has investigated the interaction between the plant's barrier, plant protection products and adjuvants that are added to increase the effect of the plant protection product.

In the future, the results of this research could enable selection of the most effective surfactant for a particular plant protection product, and the most effective plant protection product for a particular plant.

Therefore, to generate a sustainable agriculture, farmers must optimise their use of plant protection products.

Ultimately, the ACIB method is in competition with conventional systems of pesticide driven «plant protection.»