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Discusses which pests and diseases are a problem and how they can be managed without harming wildlife.
Food production is a highly technical business. This programme looks at long-term sustainability in farming. Looks at the basic scientific principles of plant growth - the balance between nutrient and energy...
'Solanum berthaultii’, an insect-resistant wild potato from Bolivia, has abundant sticky-tipped hairs on the foliage to which small insects and mites get stuck. In contrast, the foliage of cultivated...
A study of the characteristic activities of an insect that is a pupal parasite of house flies and other cycloraphous ‘Diptera’.
COI synopsis: The Qualea bird, a very destructive bird, and some methods of dealing with it.
NoS synopsis: A description of pests of all kinds and what is being done to control or exterminate them.
COI synopsis: A visit to Rothamsted Experimental Station by delegates to the first International Congress of Plant Pathology and the research on potato pests being undertaken there by a scientist from Honduras.
Tongue-in-cheek study of cane toads, originally imported into Queensland in 1935 from Hawaii to save the sugar crop from destruction by the greyback beetle. The toads bred rapidly and became an agricultural...
The symbiotic relation of fungi to their hosts can be harnessed as a biological means of controlling pests and encouraging growth in trees and other crops. It may also lead to new chemicals and drugs for the...
COI synopsis: It isn’t always a case of the bigger the better; sometimes it’s an advantage to be small. In this issue we look at the benefits of being smaller rather than larger, of using less instead of...
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