Sentences with phrase «potato beetle»

Assisted with research of Colorado potato beetle genetics, and their relation to diet and pesticide resistance.

Roger Wiegand, the company's CEO, says the company is also trying to kill insects that aren't as easily affected by RNA as the potato beetle.

The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater.

The Colorado potato beetle, an «international super pest,» has been stopped in its tracks by preventing the insect from synthesizing essential proteins

But show a potato grower bat droppings packed with the remains of their worst enemy, the Colorado potato beetle, and they are instantly persuaded.

Insect - targeted RNAs expressed in chloroplasts avoid degradation and can protect potato plants from the Colorado potato beetle.

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.»

A team of researchers led by Ralph Bock at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, in Potsdam, Germany, now reports that it has found a way to protect crops from the Colorado potato beetle with a new insecticidal tool: RNA interference, or RNAi (Science 2015, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1261680).

In June, researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, showed that an RNA spray can kill the Colorado potato beetle, protecting potato plants for more than 28 days.

Previous attempts probably didn't work well because the cytoplasm within plant cells has machinery that metabolizes double - stranded RNA before pests such as the Colorado potato beetle can consume it.

The Colorado potato beetle has also been known as the Colorado beetle, Ten - striped spearman, the Ten - lined potato beetle, and it can easily be confused with its close cousin the False Potato Beetle.

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

The Colorado potato beetle suppresses the plants chewing response only when the beetles feed on tomatoes or potatoes, not when they feed on other members of the nightshade family like eggplants or peppers.

The Colorado potato beetle has gone through whole sequences of insecticides and developed resistance.

The Colorado potato beetle moved quickly across the U.S. from Mexico in the mid-1800s and took only 20 to 30 years to reach New York and Long Island.

Felton's research looked at two crop pests — tomato fruit worms and the Colorado potato beetle — plant reactions to the pests, and the microbes that they carry.

The researchers also isolated and grew the bacteria from the Colorado potato beetle guts.

Speaking of those helpers, I am particularly grateful for their help on hands and knees in the potato patch, where they can easily see under the plants to squash those eggs of the three lined potato beetle.

checking, two times a day, for the tortoise beetle, potato beetle, and 3 - lined cucumber beetles that have already made their appearance.

We've been greeted by the first pests of the season - the tortoise beetle and the three - lined potato beetle on some potato and tomatillo plants.

For example, the Colorado potato beetle will feed on pepper, but it generally prefers the other Solanaceous vegetables, particularly potatoes and eggplants.

Some symbiotic bacteria living inside Colorado potato beetles can trick plants into reacting to a microbial attack rather than that of a chewing herbivore, according to a team of Penn State researchers who found that the beetles with bacteria were healthier and grew better.

As reported this week in BMC Zoology, researchers subjected black and yellow — striped Colorado potato beetles (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) to a constant flow of CO2.

Well, potatoes produce these natural insecticide compounds called glycoalkaloids to keep potato beetles from nibbling on them — they're not stupid.

Not exact matches

«By using chloroplast transformation we generated potato plants that accumulate high amounts of long stable dsRNAs targeting essential genes in the beetle,» says Ralph Bock.

When I read the report from source # 2 listed, I interpreted that the toxins are released by potatoes in response to beetle infestation and the toxins are in higher amounts in raw unpeeled potatoes.

French Marigolds: When grown near other garden crops, French marigolds are claimed to stimulates their growth, while also repelling beetles, nematodes, aphids, potato bugs, and squash bugs.