Sentences with phrase «with plant pests»

The technique could also be used to tinker with plant pests or mosquitoes so they don't spread lethal diseases, such as malaria.

Not exact matches

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

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 plant origin with an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service / Plant Protection and Quarantine phytosanitary certificate; and set requirements for pest Plant Health Inspection Service / Plant Protection and Quarantine phytosanitary certificate; and set requirements for pest Plant Protection and Quarantine phytosanitary certificate; and set requirements for pest risk.

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.

Monitoring for pests and diseases; monitoring water use; planting cover crops; and reducing tillage are all associated with significant cost savings.

Weeds not only look ugly, they can harbor pests like leafhoppers, which spread curly top virus to pepper plants (which happened with devastating effect throughout New Mexico in 1995).

Since most laws prohibit killing the animals and birds that raid peppers, there are two general solutions to the problem: isolate the plants with fences or netting, or scare the pests away.

Farmers in Mexico and Central America are already dealing with the effects of climate change: shorter growing seasons, unpredictable rainfall, and a surge in plant diseases and pests.

Ecolife Food is showcasing its plant - based p s, made traditionally with fresh vegetables, a seed or nut base, olive oil and that's it.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

Last year we decided to garden in a large community plot but had a lot of issues, tried to plant too many things, and spent way more than we had planned on coping with problems / drought / pests / neighbors etc..

As global climate change continues, scientists expect more droughts, heat stress and insect pests — creating need for new varieties of agricultural plants with diverse qualities that will let them cope and adapt to quickly changing conditions.

Noting that insects have been evolving resistance to natural plant defenses for millions of years and that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the first reported case of insecticide resistance, he concludes, «Finding ways to delay resistance is a never - ending challenge with any pest management approach.»

However, the positive impacts of biochar were coupled with negative findings for a suite of genes that are known to determine the ability of a plant to withstand attack from pests and pathogens.

So too were almost all other reptiles of sea and air, along with ammonites and most birds and land plants (Science, vol 327, p 1241).

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.

Planting huge acreages with a single variety of the same genetic makeup meant the entire harvest could be wiped out at once by disease or pests or changes in rainfall.

But in Nature (vol 434, p 505), Pruitt's team speculates that it might be a more widespread mechanism that allows plants to «experiment» with new mutations while keeping RNA spares as a back - up.

I enjoyed the article on nitrogen - hungry pitcher plants and their relationship with defecating mammals (1 February, p 43).

To grow a plant with better salt tolerance or pest resistance, scientists must first add genes to the embryo.

«I could come into Hawaii tomorrow with a whole bunch of plants from Southeast Asia, and as long as they didn't have any insect pests, I could bring them in,» says Charles Lamoureux, director of the Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Piper's research clarifying the mechanism of seedling establishment success for E. coccineum in conditions with limited availability of N and P may lead to advantageous root adaptation in other plants.

Appel and Cocroft say future research will focus on how vibrations are sensed by the plants, what features of the complex vibrational signal are important, and how the mechanical vibrations interact with other forms of plant information to generate protective responses to pests.

For the organic plots, the team used only manure and mechanical weeding, along with plant extracts to control pests.

Bowman has a Canon Powershot SX260 camera that has been modified and equipped with an upgraded lens for infrared photography, which will help the researchers identify plants in the South Farms» plots that appear to be absorbing or reflecting light differently, an indication that the plants are under some type of stress, such as pests, disease or nutrient deficiencies.

This tactic has been successful, especially in North America where the first Bt maize has been planted since 1995 with resistance yet to develop among lepidopteran pests.

La Cour - Harbo and his colleagues plan to add further sensors to their drone, which along with better processing capabilities will allow the system to build maps that include soil nutrition levels, plant growth stages and pest infestations.

The results suggest that carefully managed planting can slow the proliferation of pests with new powers.

They also pose natural and economic threats, competing with native ants and pollinators, and protecting plant pests such as aphids and scales in return for the sweet honeydew secretions that these insects produce.

ASPB has officially partnered with PS since 2006, and has sponsored 12 members of the Masters of Plant Science Team (MPST) annually since it was established in 2008.

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

Many diverse factors impact the evolutionary arms race that has shaped vast biological complexities dictating plant host interactions with pathogens and pests.

This Focus Issue on Biotic Stress will showcase Update reviews on recent advances in the field and primary research articles covering all research areas on plant host interactions with pathogens and pests.

The microorganisms in compost tea compete with these harmful microbes to give the plants an advantage against these pests.

Organic farmers have lower crop yields and smaller crops, and have to manage pests with time - consuming, natural methods like crop rotation, interplanting, and the use of ladybugs, rather than simply spraying a plant with toxic pesticides.

Companion planting is helpful, but if you've already planted and are having trouble with pests, some other natural solutions can be helpful:

Two traits account for nearly all GM crops planted: herbicide - tolerance (almost all glyphosate - tolerant or Roundup Ready) accounting for more than 80 percent of GM crops, and insect - resistance (Bt - crops engineered with toxins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis to kill insect pests), accounting for 30 percent.19 (Eleven percent of GM crops have both traits.)

Before you go spraying your precious plants with chemical - based pesticides, consider effective natural alternatives to rid your garden of nasty pests.

Just bring a pest - free, beautiful plant, or two or three for trade; they can be potted or bare root — as long as you're prepared to part with them!

2)[From the full text, p. E4] «The positive association with all - cause mortality for animal protein intake and the inverse association for plant protein intake were restricted to the unhealthylifestyle group (P for interaction <.001), although the association with animal protein intake did not reach statistical significance.»

When you think about GMOs, it's important to understand two things: 1) There currently are only nine GMO food products on the US market, 2) Genetic modification of plants is generally used to solve a problem (bacterial disease of the plant, pest issues, or other issue that was interfering with growth or making it impossible for the plant to survive or produce).

The levels continued to increase with each planting that used organic methods for pest control and fertilization.

Multivariate linear regression analyses showed that whole plant foods scores were negatively associated with MS scores, even after adjustments for a range of potential confounders (P < 0.01).

Higher tertile of whole plant foods (P for trend < 0.05) or lower tertile of processed foods (P for trend < 0.05) was associated with fewer MS in a dose - dependent manner.

Plant protein was associated with lower all - cause mortality (HR, 0.90 per 3 % energy increment; 95 % CI, 0.86 - 0.95; P for trend <.001) and cardiovascular mortality (HR, 0.88 per 3 % energy increment; 95 % CI, 0.80 - 0.97; P for trend =.007).

Quiz Ref IDIn contrast, a higher level of plant protein intake was associated with lower mortality, with the multivariable HR per 3 % increment of total energy intake of 0.90 (95 % CI, 0.86 - 0.95; P for trend <.001) for all - cause mortality and 0.88 (95 % CI, 0.80 - 0.97; P for trend =.007) for CVD mortality.

The positive association with all - cause mortality for animal protein intake and the inverse association for plant protein intake were restricted to the unhealthy - lifestyle group (P for interaction <.001), although the association with animal protein intake did not reach statistical significance.

[38][40] The Corsa shares its engine with the MC12 GT1; the power plant produces 755 PS (555 kW; 745 hp) at 8,000 rpm, 122 PS (90 kW; 120 hp) more than the road - legal MC12.

Ford says the limited - edition XR6 Sprint (just 550 examples are to roll out of the company's Campbellfield plant) was engineered to be sportier than the regular XR6 Turbo in terms of ride quality with improved balance, sharper steering responses involving less understeer, increased grip and better stopping via a Brembo brake package — all helped along with asymmetric (245/35 R19 front and 265/35 R19 rear) Pirelli P Zero tyres.

Yours (with tongue firmly planted in cheek), Warren PS.