Sentence examples for combat plant from inspiring English sources

The project aims to help 10 countries become better equipped to combat plant biosecurity threats.

Many strategies have been developed to combat plant diseases, including the transfer of resistance genes to crops by conventional breeding.

For instance, AgroPalma is reducing the use of pesticides by using natural biocontrol agents from the rain forest to combat plant diseases transmitted by insects, like spear rot.

Chemical PPPs are used because of their biological efficacy in key areas: bactericides and fungicides are used to combat plant diseases caused by bacteria and fungi; insecticides kill insects such as aphids or caterpillars that damage plants; and herbicides are used to control "weeds".

The United States Department of Agriculture USDAA) sponsored research to combat plant and animal diseases, to locate drought-resistant crops, and to develop hybrid seeds to increase farm productivity.

In spite of the above progress with small molecule inhibitors of human and animal viruses, identification of small molecule inhibitors to combat plant virus infections is much less advanced.

In their combats, plants use mechanisms such as antiviral RNA silencing that viruses fight against using silencing-repressors. Plants could also resist by mutating a host factor required by the virus to complete a particular step of its infectious cycle.

Second, using plants as the standard to teach basic biological principles may also combat documented "plant blindness".

Officials now say that was optimistic, and more funding will be needed to help them combat the plant's spread.

At the same time, the fungus responds to surface inductive cues via a cAMP-dependent pathway in order to initiate the infection process and combat the plant defense response (e.g., production of salicylate-1-monooxygenase).

To effectively combat them, plants have evolved direct and indirect defense mechanisms [ 1- 3].