pests

It’s peak mango season in north India, but varieties of the fruit arriving in the market lack taste, odour and colour.Untimely rains, hailstorms and attacks by semi-looper caterpillars are being cited as reasons for the dip in quality in…

Researchers have developed a "homing gene drive system" based on CRISPR/Cas9 that could be used to suppress populations of Drosophila suzukii vinegar flies -- so-called "spotted-wing Drosophila" that devastate soft-skinned fruit in North…

By using precision gene engineering techniques, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich have been able to turn tobacco plants into solar-powered factories for moth sex pheromones. Critically, they've shown how the production of…

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New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them from swimming to or fertilizing eggs. The study could help control populations of Culex, the common house…

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Is the headquarters of All India Chess Federation (AICF) office at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi infested with pests? Well, it seems so based on the reason given by AICF while denying the information sought under the…

For years, Andrew Murray would see the small schools of goldfish living in the storm pond near his home in suburban London, Ont. He never thought much of them until this spring, on a sunny day in April when the normally greenish pond had an…

Crop pests and diseases in China have significantly increased, with climate change being one of the relevant drivers, new research finds. Based on a unique, previously unpublished data set ranging from 1970 to 2016, an international team…

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