Count me out of counting seeds
Credit: Matthew Bertucci One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Over and over and over. That's the ...
Tag: Fertilizers/Pest Management
Taking a bite out of mosquito-borne disease
UNM researchers devise an eco-friendly way to eradicate a buzzing, biting pestCredit: The University of New Mexico It has long ...
New technique reduces pathogen identification time from two weeks to less than one hour
Credit: Karolina Pusz-Bochenska, Edel Perez-Lopez, Tim J. Dumonceaux, Chrystel Olivier, and Tyler J. Wist St. Paul, MN (February 2020)--Transmitted by ...
Silica increases water availability for plants
Bayreuth researchers discover a way to enhance food securityCredit: Photo: University of Bayreuth. As a result of climate change, more ...
Local genetic adaption helps sorghum crop hide from witchweed
Credit: S.M. Runo, Kenyatta University Sorghum crops in areas where the agricultural parasite striga, also known as witchweed, is common ...
An invasive flatworm from Argentina, Obama nungara, found across France and Europe
Citizen science reveals the presence of the flatworms in gardens in three quarters of metropolitan FranceCredit: Photo by Pierre Gros ...
Fireflies face global threats
Credit: Jason Steel - www.jason-steel.co.uk Worldwide declines in insect populations have sparked considerable concern among researchers and members of the ...
Agricultural area residents in danger of inhaling toxic aerosols
Overuse of selenium-heavy fertilizers creates airborne, lung-damaging particlesCredit: C M Sabbir Ahmed/UCR Excess selenium from fertilizers and other natural sources ...
Pollination is better in cities than in the countryside
Plants benefit from more bees, especially bumble beesCredit: Henryk Niestrój /Pixabay Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in ...
Harrington Seed Destructor kills nearly 100 percent of US agronomic weed seeds in lab study
Credit: Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - In the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds, farmers are increasingly eager to ...
What’s in Puget sound? New technique casts a wide net for concerning chemicals
Credit: Ryan Moriarty/UW Tacoma The waters of Puget Sound support many species, including mussels, salmon and killer whales. But researchers ...
Insecticides are becoming more toxic to honey bees
Researchers discover that neonicotinoid seed treatments are driving a dramatic increase in insecticide toxicity in U.S. agricultural landscapes, despite evidence ...
Decontaminating pesticide-polluted water using engineered nanomaterial and sunlight
Two INRS teams join forces and develop a new ecological process to degrade atrazineCredit: My Ali El Khakani, INRS Québec, ...
UC Davis scientists provide novel strategies for parasitic weed control
Credit: Yaxin Wang, Daniel Steele, Maylin Murdock, Seigmund Lai, and John Yoder Parasitic weeds are among the world's most economically ...