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Insect pests more plentiful in hotter parts of city than in cooler areas
2013-03-28 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Higher temperatures in cities can be a key driver of insect pest outbreaks on trees in urban areas, according to research published March 27 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emily Meineke from North Carolina State University and colleagues from other institutions. The researchers found that a scale insect that exclusively feeds on oak trees was 13 times more abundant on willow oaks in the hottest parts of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina than in cooler areas of the same city, even when...
Insect control traits from Syngenta provide solution to aflatoxin issue
2013-01-11 06:00:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Minnetonka, Minn., U.S.A. January, 11, 2013 –The 2012 growing season brought many challenges in relation to the drought, including high levels of aflatoxin, a byproduct of mold growth and a carcinogen that is harmful to humans and animals at high levels. With more grain elevators testing corn for aflatoxin, reports from farmers and dealers in dryland areas of the southern Midwest indicated the use of hybrids containing the Agrisure Viptera trait have played a role in successfully reducing aflatoxin levels in corn. read more
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