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Two-Sex Life Table Analysis for Optimizing Beauveria bassiana Application against Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) [PDF]

Journal of Fungi
Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a highly dispersive, polyphagous insect pest that severely defoliates crops. Excessive reliance on synthetic insecticides leads to ecological pollution and resistance development, urging scientists ...
Junaid Zafar, Rana Fartab Shoukat, Zhanpeng Zhu, Dongran Fu, Xiaoxia Xu, Fengliang Jin   +5 more
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Coordinated regulation of vegetative phase change by brassinosteroids and the age pathway in Arabidopsis

Nature Communications, 2023
Vegetative phase change in plants is regulated by a gradual decline in the level of miR156 and a corresponding increase in the expression of its targets, SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) genes.
Bingying Zhou, Qing Luo, Yanghui Shen, Liang Wei, Xia Song, Hangqian Liao, Lan Ni, Tao Shen, Xinglin Du, Junyou Han, Mingyi Jiang, Shengjun Feng, Gang Wu   +12 more
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The average life expectancy of persons with disabilities in China

SSM: Population Health, 2023
The average life expectancy (ALE) of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is much shorter than that of the total population in many countries. However, there have been relatively few empirical studies on the ALE of PWDs in China. This study estimates the ALE
Peng Zhan, Dongwen Li, Xiang Zhang, Xianchun Bai   +3 more
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Estimation of the Distribution of Duration of Breastfeeding from Cross-Sectional Data: Some Methodological Issue.

Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 2021
Background: Duration of breastfeeding is an important health indicator of mother and child. There are various indirect epidemiological methods available to estimate the duration of breastfeeding from cross sectional data.
Anup Kumar, Sachin Kumar, Jai Kishun, Uttam Singh, Pushpraj Pushpraj   +4 more
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Sublethal Effects of Three Insecticides on Development and Reproduction of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Agronomy, 2022
Spodoptera frugiperda is a serious invasive pest, which has attracted attention globally in recent years. Research on the sublethal effects of common insecticides on S. frugiperda is important for its comprehensive management in the field. In this paper,
Hui-Ming Wu, Hang-Li Feng, Guo-Di Wang, Li-Li Zhang, Lovemore Zulu, Ya-Hui Liu, Yong-Li Zheng, Qiong Rao   +7 more
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Estimation of life expectancy and measurement of immature stages of Lucilia sericata fed on three kinds of diets [PDF]

Journal of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, 2020
Background and Objectives: Finding the best diet is very important to rear Lucilia sericata larvae for therapeutic purposes and prepare standard curves in forensic entomology.
Omid Dehghan, Seyed Mehdi Tabaie, Javad Rafinejad, Sahar Azarmi, Abbas Rahimi Forooshani, Atiyeh Rafinejad, Kamran Akbarzadeh   +6 more
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In vitro life table of the storage mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Acari: Acaridae)

Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2023
Introduction: The mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae is a common contaminant of stored products and an important pest in plant tissue culture laboratories, because they diseminate fungi and bacteria.
Pamela Murillo, Hugo Aguilar
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Distributionally adjusted life expectancy as a life table function

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: Life expectancy is one of the most useful indicators of mortality and development in a given society but considers only one aspect of the distribution of length of life: the average.
Francisco Goerlich
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Missing the trees for the forest: A survey of sub-district-level mortality pattern in North Bihar, India

Current Medical Issues, 2023
Background and Objective: The paucity of knowledge on mortality patterns in a state such as Bihar with its population of 200 million contributes to misdirected planning and prioritization of health expenditure.
Sharon Cynthia, Miriam Thankam George, Philip Finny, Mathew Santhosh Thomas, Lois Joy Armstrong   +4 more
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Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Enhance Defense of Strawberry Plants Against Spider Mites

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Plants mediate interactions between below- and above-ground microbial and animal communities. Microbial communities of the rhizosphere commonly include mutualistic symbionts such as mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia and free-living plant growth-promoting ...
Afsane Hosseini, Mojtaba Hosseini, Peter Schausberger   +2 more
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