Sentence examples for pest plant from inspiring English sources

For example, Bagavathiannan et al. (2010) report that feral alfalfa in Canada is evolutionarily derived from the crop, but a search of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's website (http://www.agr.gc.ca/) revealed that that species is not a significant pest plant in that country.

Twenty-nine species were chosen from the 133 Category I and II Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (EPCC) species for their distinct, short reproductive phenologies (as in Primack et al. 2004) and because they occur in more than one region of Florida.

Other species introduced from Eurasia into North America, such as Rhamnus cathartica and R. frangula, have become serious pest plants that take over the understories of native forests.

This includes non-native invasive plant species labeled as exotic pest plants and invasive exotics growing in native plant communities.

For example, introducing predispersal biological control agents that dramatically reduce seed density of pest plants could also reduce the importance of self-thinning processes as sources of selection in determining the traits of reproducing adults (Fig. 2 and described later).

Of course, never plant pest plants randomly.

Tomato has also been extensively used as a model organism for basic studies in plant biology, with a focus on resistance to pests, plant development, and biochemical pathways.

Among modern Acariformes, a bewildering array of lifestyles and habitats may be found and the group includes important agricultural pests, plant disease vectors, and animal parasites.

The strategy is characterized by single or multiple applications of large quantities of pathogens in targeted habitats when climatic conditions facilitate the interaction with arthropod pests, plant diseases or weeds.

This involves rotating a diverse set of crops to discourage weeds and other pests, planting cover crops to control weeds, and tilling the soil judiciously to reduce the need for chemicals and prevent erosion.

The model was kept general and was designed in such a way that it can be adapted to different target species and their specific ecology (natural enemy-pest-plant combination).