Planthoppers and leafhoppers not only feed on rice plants but also act as highly efficient vectors for plant viruses, causing ...
USA Rice has formed a scientific task force to address the pest, while the Environmental Protection Agency and Texas ...
Rice is at the centre of meals for millions of families, but at the same time, it is one of the most compromised crops once ...
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...
WASHINGTON — A warmer world likely means more and hungrier insects chomping on crops and less food on dinner plates, a new study suggests. Insects now consume about 10 percent of the globe’s food, but ...
WASHINGTON -- A gene that controls the life stages of seedlings might be manipulated to help plants resist pests and mature earlier, say researchers who isolated the gene in a laboratory plant.
PINE TREE, Ark. (AP) - Farmers should expect to see an unusually dense wave of insect and pest populations in crops across the state. Experts with the University of Arkansas System Division of ...