pest-management
Pest management is the strategic regulation of organisms that adversely affect plant health and agricultural productivity. This field is critical to plant science because pest damage significantly reduces crop yields and threatens food security, making effective management strategies essential for sustainable agriculture. Understanding pest ecology and developing integrated control approaches represents a fundamental research area that directly impacts agricultural resilience and plant health.
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Marigolds planted beside tomatoes cut root pests and boost yields
It means you can protect your homegrown tomatoes from invisible soil pests just by planting marig...
AI-empowered crop protection against insect-borne diseases.
Citrus on your grocery store shelf and the tomatoes in your garden are under constant threat from...
Metabolic trade-offs in sugar beet under drought and beet leaf mine...
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Population dynamics of Drosophila suzukii across elevations in Wenc...
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The bread on your table depends on wheat, and tiny aphids quietly hijack its microbial ecosystem ...
Morphology, biology and plant host damage comparison between Tetran...
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Rice summons pest-killing wasps by sniffing out which bug laid the eggs
Rice fields across Asia may already be running a chemical communication network that calls in all...
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Understanding exactly how insects 'smell' the chemicals plants release could lead to smarter, tar...
Cross-kingdom signaling manipulation by insect-associated microbial...
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Utilization of non-chemical pest control practices among agro-pasto...
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Genetic and pharmacological inhibition of the Kir2A channel in diam...
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Soybean induced resistance to Spodoptera eridania herbivory.
Soybean fields that host naturally resistant varieties can fight back against armyworm caterpilla...
A Rickettsiella transinfection in Rhopalosiphum padi reduces fitnes...
Barley yellow dwarf virus quietly devastates wheat and oat crops across millions of acres every y...
Leveraging RNAi and CRISPR/Cas9-based strategies for target gene ch...
Western flower thrips can devastate a pepper, tomato, or flower garden almost invisibly, and they...
Mineral dusts protect stored pulses from beetle damage without chemicals
If you grow or store dried beans, lentils, or chickpeas at home, inert dusts like diatomaceous ea...
Aphids' old pesticide defenses secretly primed them for a new one
The aphids sucking sap off your roses, peppers, and potatoes are evolving resistance to pest spra...
Bt agave: why it is time to explore a new biotechnological frontier.
Agave planted in xeric gardens and dryland restoration sites faces the same insect pest pressure ...
Wild thyme extract kills stored-grain beetles, no pesticides needed
The thyme growing in your herb bed isn't just for the kitchen: compounds in its leaves can kill a...
Gut microbiota communities and their multifaceted roles in immune d...
Fire ants tunnel through garden beds, damage plant roots, kill ground-nesting pollinators, and ha...
Plant viruses trick both crops and insects to spread
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Citrus oil boosts radiation's power against grain-eating pests
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New math model tracks how bugs spread through grain bins
The bread on your table starts as wheat sitting in silos for months, and predicting exactly where...
