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Fight those itsy-bitsy indoor plant pests

When indoor infestations do occur, they can be devastating if not dealt with promptly, effectively and safely.

Trouble in the field

Associated Press One of the nation's most widely planted crops - a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide - may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.

Panama is first to benefit from fund to tackle biopiracy

The Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPIF) — has announced its first beneficiary: a project exploring Panama's natural resources for use in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.

Peter Seeberger: we can treat malaria for less

Artemisinin is the most effective malaria treatment yet discovered. Peter Seeberger has found a way to to make it from the waste products of its current manufacture Artemisinin, a drug extracted from the sweet wormwood plant, is the most effective treatment for malaria ever discovered. Every year, millions of doses of artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are donated to Africa and Asia ...

Researchers put the squeeze on citrus disease by developing trees that taste bad to bugs

With Florida's $9 billion citrus industry threatened by a deadly bacterial disease, Rick Kress '73 asked scientists at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva for help.