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non-chemical pest control NRP event ATW20 feat

Agri-Tech Week 2020 NRP: Crops and non-chemical pest control – genetics, environment and biodiversity

Major breakthroughs in our understanding of pest predators and plant immune responses are offering the potential for non-chemical pest control

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13/11/2020
Guided Biotics to protect plants from bacterial diseases

FOLIUM Science extends Guided Biotics®technology to plants

FOLIUM Science’s Guided Biotics enables highly selective control of unwanted bacteria – even those resistant to antimicrobials – while protecting closely related beneficial species of bacteria. The collaboration with John Innes Centre sees it apply its technology to economically important crop diseases such as Xanthomonas and Xylella

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31/07/2020
Jenna Ross

Slug pellet ban is forcing an era of innovation for farmers

“The uncertainty over the future of metaldehyde slug pellets is forcing an era of revolutionary change in slug control,” says Dr Jenna Ross, Innovation Hub Lead at UK AgriTech centre, Crop Health and Protection Limited (CHAP).

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01/11/2019
rice blast pathogen

Rice ‘immune system’ protects again rice blast pathogen

The rice blast pathogen destroys enough food to feed more than 60 million people every year – almost the population of the UK. However, it

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11/07/2018
Multiple rust aecia on barberry

Forgotten stem rust harboured in barberry

Stem rust of wheat and barley has throughout history been associated with crop failure and famine, and has recently re-emerged in Western Europe 60 years

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10/02/2018
Plants use chemical defence against peach potato aphid

Plants use chemical defence against peach potato aphid

When attacked by aphids crop plants defend themselves by releasing more calcium to help repair the damaged cells. Professor Dale Sanders of John Innes Centre, one

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28/07/2017

Pollen Beetles: Is their bark worse than their bite?

Dr Kate Storer, a research scientist in crop physiology at ADAS, spoke at REAP 2016 about the impact of pollen beetles on crops. Storer said

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08/12/2016
CSFB pest control

Non-chemical control options for cabbage stem flea beetle to be explored

OSR crops can be defoliated to remove the larvae with little impact on seed yield, provided the timing is right, according to research conducted in

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22/09/2016

Latest on integrated slug control

With warnings that the slug infestations are going to be particularly bad this year the AHDB has updated its advice on integrated slug control to include

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03/05/2016

CROPROTECT App provides decision support for crop protection

The CROPROTECT project, based at Rothamsted, is working with farmers and agronomists to map crop threats such as blackgrass and flea beetle where pesticides are becoming

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03/12/2015

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