Chitosan as a Control Tool for Insect Pest Management: A Review. [PDF]
Insects, 2023 Simple Summary Chitosan is a biopolymer derived from chitin that has gained much attention due to its biological activities. Chitosan can be produced by the exoskeleton of arthropods (crustaceans and insects) and the structural membranes and spores of ...
Abenaim L, Conti B.
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Entomopathogen-based biopesticides: insights into unraveling their potential in insect pest management. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 Global food security is a critical challenge to fulfill the demands of an exponentially growing population. To date, growers rely on chemicals; the broad-spectrum application of synthetic molecules leads to environmental contamination, resistance ...
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A Review of Insect Pest Management in Vegetable Crop Production in Nigeria. [PDF]
Insects, 2023 Simple Summary Vegetable crops are grown in Nigeria for their edible fruits, leaves, and succulent shoots and roots. The vegetables include okra, tomatoes, chilli peppers, cucumbers, green amaranth, carrots and onions.
Ofuya TI, Okunlola AI, Mbata GN.
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Role of gut symbionts of insect pests: A novel target for insect-pest control. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 Insects possess beneficial and nuisance values in the context of the agricultural sector and human life around them. An ensemble of gut symbionts assists insects to adapt to diverse and extreme environments and to occupy every available niche on earth ...
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Crop insect pest detection based on dilated multi-scale attention U-Net. [PDF]
Plant MethodsCrop pests seriously affect the yield and quality of crops. Accurately and rapidly detecting and segmenting insect pests in crop leaves is a premise for effectively controlling insect pests. Aiming at the detection problem of irregular multi-scale insect
Wang X, Zhang S, Zhang T.
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Perspectives for integrated insect pest protection in oilseed rape breeding. [PDF]
Theor Appl Genet, 2022 In the past, breeding for incorporation of insect pest resistance or tolerance into cultivars for use in integrated pest management schemes in oilseed rape/canola (Brassica napus) production has hardly ever been approached.
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Integrated Insect Pest Management Techniques for Rice
Sustainability, 2023 In modern agriculture, climate change, environmental degradation, and natural resource depletion constitute one of the major potential issues for sustainable crop production and environmental management.
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An Efficient Insect Pest Classification Using Multiple Convolutional Neural Network Based Models [PDF]
New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques, 2021 Accurate insect pest recognition is significant to protect the crop or take the early treatment on the infected yield, and it helps reduce the loss for the agriculture economy.
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Large-Scale Insect Pest Image Classification
Journal of Advances in Information Technology, 2023 — One of the main issues with agricultural production is insect attack, which leads to poor crop quality. Farmers, however, have a complicated and time-consuming task in detecting and categorizing insects.
Thanh-Nghi Doan
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Radiation dose-rate is a neglected critical parameter in dose–response of insects
Scientific Reports, 2022 Reproductive sterility is the basis of the sterile insect technique (SIT) and essential for its success in the field. Numerous factors that influence dose–response in insects have been identified. However, historically the radiation dose administered has
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