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Farmers' perceptions of cotton pests and their management in western Kenya

, 2012
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) production in western Kenya is severely affected by insect pests, resulting in poor yields in spite of the growing demand for the commodity.
Nyang'au, I. M., Borges, M., Mideg, C., Birkett, M. A., Pickett, J. A., Birkett, M., Khan, Z. R., Pickett, J., Khan, Z., Midega, C. A. O., Nyang'au, I., Pittchar, J.   +11 more
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World forests, global change, and emerging pests and pathogens

, 2023
Global changes play today an important role in altering patterns of human, animal, and plant host–pathogen interactions and invasive pest species. With rapid development in sequencing technology, there is also an increase in pathogen and pest studies ...
JACTEL, Hervé, GUEGAN, Jean-Francois, DE THOISY, Benoît, GÓMEZ-GALLEGO, Mireia   +3 more
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Dual‐Physical‐Field Nanocatalysis: Injectable Hydrogel Enables Piezo‐Photothermal Synergy for Breast Cancer Therapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Piezocatalytic therapy (PCT) harnesses mechanical energy to generate tumor‐lethal reactive oxygen species (ROS), but its efficacy is limited by rapid electron‐hole recombination and poor intratumoral retention. To overcome these limitations, we engineered heterostructured BiOCl@CuO nanosheets embedded in an injectable, conductive ...
Can Tian, Shihan Xiao, Xuan Chen, Danni Zhang, Zizhen Liu, Jing Wang, Ning Xie, Wei Li   +7 more
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Transferable Deep Reinforcement Learning With Edge‐Contour‐Depth Fusion for Autonomous Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Navigation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents an anatomical landmark‐guided DRL framework for autonomous wireless capsule endoscopy navigation. Using a lightweight edge‐contour‐depth fusion module, it achieves over 97% coverage across diverse gastric anatomies. To ensure reliability, a two‐stage sim‐to‐real pipeline with an adaptive dynamic programming controller mitigates ...
Haoxuan Wu, Haitao Gao, Qingyang Liu, Sishen Yuan, Haiyang Fang, Mingwu Su, Baijia Liang, Yongzun Yang, Long Bai, Wenzhen Dong, Dihong Xie, Shijian Su, Jiewen Lai, Shing Shin Cheng, Zhen Li, Xiuli Zuo, Hongliang Ren   +16 more
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Silver Nanoparticles as a Potent Nanopesticide: Toxic Effects and Action Mechanisms on Pest Insects of Agricultural Importance—A Review

Molecules
Nanotechnology has been a promising plant protection discipline in recent years, attributed to the unique physicochemical properties exhibited at the nanoscale.
Daniel Martínez-Cisterna, Olga Rubilar, Gonzalo Tortella, Lingyun Chen, Manuel Chacón-Fuentes, Marcelo Lizama, Pablo Parra, Leonardo Bardehle   +7 more
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Modeling temperature-dependent survival with small data sets: Insights from tropical mountain agricultural pests.

, 2013
Many regions are increasingly threatened by agricultural pests but suffer from a lack of data that hampers the development of adequate population dynamics models that could contribute to pest management strategies.
Crespo Pérez, Maria Verónica
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Achieving High‐Density and Stress‐Resilient Maize Breeding Via Germplasm Innovation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Global population growth and climate change have exacerbated the global food crisis. This perspective presents a conceptual framework focusing on enhancing population advantages. Several novel breeding objectives are proposed to improve density tolerance and stress resistance for yield improvement.
Xinlong Li, Yongqiang Chen, Dong Ding, Xuehai Zhang, Xuxiang Jia, Zhanhui Zhang, Yafei Wang, Weihua Li, Hui Zhang, Jihua Tang   +9 more
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Occurrence, distribution, and management experiences of rice (Oryza sativa L.) major diseases and pests in Ethiopia: a review

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Rice is a very important cereal crop almost all over the world, but in recent years, its production and productivity have been hindered by several limiting factors.
Melkamu Andargie, Merkuz Abera, Adane Tesfaye, Esuyawkal Demis   +3 more
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Two new pests of apple and black currant

, 1940
To be forewarned is to be forearmed and it is for this reason that the following information has been written concerning a gall midge which has recently been reported attacking apple blossom in Japan and another gall midge which attacks black currant ...
Barnes, H. F.
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Toward Flexible Printed Electronics: A Spider‐Silk‐Inspired, Strong and Tough Thermoplastic Polyamide Elastomer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by spider silk, a bio‐inspired polyamide elastomer with a dynamic physical cross‐linking network is developed. Mimicking the rigid β‐sheet crystals and sacrificial hydrogen bonds of silk, the material achieves an exceptional balance of strength and toughness.
Bo Yang, Liyue Zhang, Mengjing Yang, Hangzhi Guo, Zhibo Lin, Xinyu Qi, Wenjun Li, Haiyan Yan, Meng Li, Yanhui Chen, Weixing Chen, Zhenguo Liu, Wei Huang   +12 more
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