Raguso thinks reverse engineering the plant's chemical weaponry could help humans in our ongoing battle against pests.
Microsatellite markers in particular exhibit high resolution and are suitable for studying genetic structuring and deducing the ongoing dispersal of pests [ 17, 18].
However, this is an ongoing process and novel pests may arise.
A study in North America has valued the loss of pest control from ongoing bat declines at more than $22bn in lost agricultural productivity.
Pests represent an ongoing threat, both to global biodiversity and the economic sustainability of agricultural industries (Pimentel et al. 2005).
Resistance in pest populations is an ongoing threat to transgenic Bt crop efficacy [ 32, 33].
This kind of growth leads to a weaker plant, needing more water, an ongoing dependence on additional fertilizer and greater vulnerability to pests and disease.
The epidemiology report (pdf), produced by Defra, found that pest control reports last month specifically commented on the "ongoing problem of gulls on uncovered waste bins and of them roosting on the finishing units" at the site.
Here we report the population genetic structure of an oak forest pest, Platypus quercivorus (Murayama; Coleoptera: Platypodidae), and infer the ongoing gene flow among populations.
