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ABSTRACT Global food demand is predicted to rise anywhere from 59% to 98% by 2050 because of increasing population. However, the continued depletion of natural resources and increasing biotic and abiotic stresses will continue to pose significant threats to global food security in coming years.
Memoona Khalid+5 more
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Statistical model for overdispersed count outcome with many zeros: an approach for direct marginal inference [PDF]
Marginalized models are in great demand by most researchers in the life sciences particularly in clinical trials, epidemiology, health-economics, surveys and many others since they allow generalization of inference to the entire population under study ...
Doku-Amponsah, Kwabena, Iddi, Samuel
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Summary Interactions between plants and soil microbes are widespread and are documented to modulate plant–insect herbivore interactions. Still, it remains unclear how these shape the overall plant defense responses and the mechanisms in suppressing insect populations.
Crispus M. Mbaluto, Sharon E. Zytynska
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Effect of temperature and cropping sequence on the infestation pattern of Bemisia tabaci in potato
In India, more than 85% of the total potato production is realised from the subtropical Indo-Gangetic plains where potato is cultivated during winter. The cotton whitefly, B. tabaci is a major pest of potato as it transmits the Tomato leaf curl New Delhi
MOHD ABAS SHAH+5 more
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A cyantraniliprole‐resistant strain of Spodoptera frugiperda with I4790K mutation exhibited a resistance ratio of 3414‐fold and high cross‐resistance to other diamide insecticides. Abstract BACKGROUND Cyantraniliprole, a diamide insecticide, is widely used in Brazil to control sucking and defoliating pests, including the fall armyworm (Spodoptera ...
Leonardo V Thiesen+7 more
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Defining Hierarchical Decision Trees for Encarsia Formosa Strategies from Greenhouse Tomato Consultants' Perspectives [PDF]
Market pressure is forcing New Zealand greenhouse tomato growers to shift from conventional to more environmentally-friendly pest control methods such as IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
Cameron, Ewen+2 more
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Exploring the Critical Environmental Optima and Biotechnological Prospects of Fungal Fruiting Bodies
Mechanisms and strategies for fungal fruiting body development (FBD) are reported. The critical optima for the relevant environmental cues regulating FBD were synthesised. Fruiting body biotechnological applications and recent advances in designed approaches are elucidated.
Amechi S. Nwankwegu+3 more
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Horticulturalists and gardeners in temperate regions often claim that planting marigolds next to tomato plants protects the tomatoes from the glasshouse whitefly (Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood). If shown to hold true, this technique could be used in
Niall J A Conboy+8 more
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The exotic spiralling whitefly, Aleurodicus dispersus Russell, was observed to infest several ornamentals including rose, hibiscus, poinsettia and acalypha in and around Bangalore.
M Mani, A Krishnamoorthy
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Encarcia Versicolor Species Novum, an Eulophid Parasite of the Greenhouse Whitefly, Aleyrodes Vaporariorum Westwood [PDF]
A. A. Girault
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