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Billions of insects join the “mile high club”
Entomologists have discovered that there are far more insects flying around above our heads than previously thought. Speaking at the Royal Entomological Society’s national meeting Entomology 2002, which will take place at Cardiff University on 12–13 September 2002, Dr Jason Chapman will say that in a typical summer month, around 3.5... view more... (2002-09-04)
Lacewing species new to Britain unexpectedly detected in field trials of aphid sex pheromone
Scientists from IACR-Rothamsted1 and Imperial College were surprised to find large numbers of green lacewings in traps baited with a plant-derived compound aimed at improving natural biocontrol of aphid pests2. Close inspection by Stephen Brooks at the Natural History Museum identified these lacewings as Peyerimhoffina gracilis, a species new to... view more... (2001-12-17)
See no weevil: researcher tracks rice bugs to help farmers, consumers
When there's something bugging rice farmers, a large segment of the world's population is likely to find out. view more (2009-08-13)
Researchers Find an Essential Gene for Forming Ears of Corn
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) professor David Jackson, Ph.D., and a team of plant geneticists have identified a gene essential in controlling development of the maize plant, commonly known in the United States as corn. view more (2008-09-25)
Oklahoma researchers support biodiversity in biofuels production
U.S. and European mandates for subsidies of cellulosic ethanol production and use have uncertain environmental consequences according to an international group of scientists which includes researchers from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. view more (2008-10-06)
Gypsy Moth Management Made More Efficient, Cost-Effective
A computer model that provides land managers with a more efficient and cost-effective approach for controlling gypsy moths and other invasive pests has been created by biologists at Penn State University and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Gypsy moths, which were introduced to North America in the late 1860s, are responsible for... view more... (2008-04-03)
Where Is Your Soil Water? Crop Yield Has the Answer
Crop yield is highly dependent on soil plant-available water, the portion of soil water that can be taken up by plant roots. view more (2008-07-02)
Fruit fly gene research may shed light on human disease processes
Those small fruit flies buzzing around your bananas are more than pests—they may be allies in a fruitful search for clues to human diseases caused when genes malfunction. view more (2007-03-28)
Termite Killer Lingers as a Potent Greenhouse Gas
Sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2), a gas commonly used to rid buildings of termites and other pests, is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere about 36 years, six to 10 times longer than previously thought, according to a research team led by Jens Mühle, an atmospheric chemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. view more (2009-03-11)
UCR-led research team uses tiny wasp to wipe out major agricultural pest in Tahiti
A research team led by Mark Hoddle, a biological control specialist at UC Riverside, has nearly eradicated the glassy-winged sharpshooter, a major agricultural pest, from the island of Tahiti and several other French Polynesian islands in the South Pacific Ocean. view more (2008-03-17)
Media invitation: Insects matter more than ever
Insects are a rapid reaction force. They evolve, whether following Darwin's ideas on natural selection or in response to changing circumstances, and the integral role they play in our world is changing too. Top scientists from across the globe are coming to Reading, Berkshire in July to share their research on how these changes affect our own... view more... (2003-07-09)
Tiptoe through the tulips
Scientists have discovered that plant leaves activate defence mechanisms against plant eating insects within twenty seconds of an insect walking across them. Dr Alan Bown will be presenting the results of his footsteps research at the Society for Experimental Biology conference on Tuesday 9 April. view more (2002-04-04)
Transgene Aspen And Cloned Karelian Birch
Long ago genetic engineering got deep reach into pharmacological and food industry, agriculture and medicine. The trees are no exclusion, but genetic engineers started to deal with them approximately ten years later than with other objects: the trees are too difficult for genetic investigations and manipulations. The wood plant genetic engineering... view more... (2003-06-16)
Iowa State researchers explore turning fuel ethanol into beverage alcohol
Fuel ethanol could be cheaply and quickly converted into the purer, cleaner alcohol that goes into alcoholic drinks, cough medicines, mouth washes and other products requiring food-grade alcohol, say Iowa State University researchers. view more (2006-08-28)
Ancient Mexican maize varieties
Maize was first domesticated in the highlands of Mexico about 10,000 years ago and is now one of the most important crop plants in the world. view more (2008-06-26)
Ants and avalanches: Insects on coffee plants follow widespread natural tendency
Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality---a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature---scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches. view more (2008-01-24)
Scientists identify gene for resistance to parasitic 'witchweed'
The parasitic flowering plant Striga, or "witchweed," attacks the roots of host plants, draining needed water and nutrients and leaving them unable to grow and produce any grains. view more (2009-08-28)
£4.5M for new studies on gene flow in GM and conventional agriculture
New research, totalling around £4.5M, into the behaviour and transfer of genes within and between plants and microbes is announced today by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Fifteen projects are the first to be funded under the joint BBSRC/NERC initiative... view more... (2000-11-23)
Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill
The world's most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying work, a new study has found. view more (2006-09-26)
Ozone depletes oil seed rape productivity
High ozone conditions cause a 30% decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of toxic compounds within oilseed rape plants. view more (2009-06-29)
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