Foliar application boosts the zinc content of wheat grain by up to 50%
Credit: University of Cordoba A team from the Department of Agronomy at the UCO has demonstrated, through field tests carried ...
Tag: Fertilizers/Pest Management
Organic composts may help farmers prevent foodborne disease outbreaks
Credit: Dr. Devarajan Foodborne disease outbreaks linked to the consumption of fresh produce have caused farmers to re-evaluate their practices. ...
Xin Zhang receives NSF CAREER Award
Award will support understanding of nitrogen pollution reduction in Chesapeake Bay watershed and beyondCredit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...
Increasing applied pesticide toxicity threatens plants and insects
Credit: Renja Bereswill A group of scientists from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, has shown that for plants and insects ...
64% of global agricultural land at risk of pesticide pollution?
Asia and Europe revealed as having regions at high-risk of pesticide pollutionCredit: Associate Professor Federico Maggi, Dr Fiona Tang, University ...
Plant gene found in insect, shields it from leaf toxins
Credit: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from ...
New CABI research confirms presence of highly invasive apple snail in Kenya
New research published today by scientists at CABI and the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) confirms that the apple ...
Genome sequenced for pesky pumpkin pathogen
Credit: Montgomery Flack URBANA, Ill. - Pumpkin growers dread the tiny tan scabs that form on their fruit, each lesion ...
How grasslands respond to climate change
Effects of CO2 increase were already apparent in the past centuryCredit: Rothamsted Research "Based on field experiments with increased carbon ...
Rodenticides in the environment pose threats to birds of prey
Credit: Oliver Krone/Leibniz-IZW Over the past decades, the increased use of chemicals in many areas led to environmental pollution - ...
Plantwise plant clinics help promote sustainable crop pest management in Rwanda and Zambia
CABI-led Plantwise plant clinics can help promote more sustainable ways to fight crop pests and diseases in Rwanda and Zambia ...
Phytol may be promising for eco-friendly agrochemicals to control root-knot nematodes
Credit: Taketo Fujimoto, Hiroshi Abe, Takayuki Mizukubo, and Shigemi Seo Root-knot nematodes (RKNs, Meloidogyne spp.) infect a broad range of ...
New discoveries on deadly fungus – might be a key for treatment
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper, University of Jena Aspergillus fumigatus kills as many people as malaria and tuberculosis, but is less known. ...
Going back in time restores decades of quiet corn drama
Credit: Alonso Favela, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Corn didn't start out as the powerhouse crop it is today. ...
Households in Zimbabwe affected by fall armyworm are 12% more likely to experience hunger
CABI has led the first study to explore the income and food security effects of the fall armyworm invasion on ...
Deforestation favors an increase in the diversity of antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria
Study analyzed some 800 million DNA sequences extracted from 48 soil samples collected in Pará State and northern Mato Grosso ...
Forget the fly swatter: Biologists map genes to fight stable flies
Stable flies cause $2B in agriculture losses each year -- and they're so annoyingCredit: Pia Untalan Olafson Researchers hope to ...
Study offers insights into management of invasive paperbark trees
Credit: Photo credit: P. W. Tipping. WESTMINSTER, Colorado - March 10, 2021 - The paperbark tree (Melaleuca quinquenervia) was introduced ...
Chemical signal in plants reduces growth processes in favor of defense
Beta-cyclocitral produced by plants after herbivore attack increases defense responses while inhibiting the production of metabolites for growthCredit: Kimberly Falk, ...
Unveiling the cause of onion center rot
Credit: Alex Polidore Since 1983, the bacteria Pantoea ananatis has been known to infect several important crops including onions, rice, ...