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There is no permanent solution to control this pest through plant breeding.
These nucleotide stretches may serve as environmentally safe targets for RNAi mediated control of the pest through crop genetic engineering.
In this model, the distribution of two competing resources (feeding and laying sites) affects the spatial population dynamics of a dipteran pest through a heterogeneous dispersion of the individuals and a metabolic currency.
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The horticultural industry is now dependent upon chemical control of pests through pesticides, materials toxic to the pest in some stage of its life cycle.
The trait in the Bt maize is insect resistance designed to act against particular target lepidopteran pests through Bt protein expressed throughout the maize plant.
In particular, various Brassicaceae have been reported to act as biofumigants against a variety of soil-borne pests through the release of i.a.a
Symbiotic microorganisms, especially bacteria, can be used in the biological control of insect pests through the use of different methods, e.g., they can be used to express insecticidal toxins or proteins by using genetic engineering techniques (Beard et al. 1998).
The future goal of crop biotechnology is thus to engineer a durable, multimechanistic resistance to insect pests through an understanding of the diversity of plant responses to insect attack.
A conservative estimate stresses that future damages from harmful animal and plant diseases may be as high as 134 billion US dollars in the absence of effective measures to prevent the introduction of unwanted pests through various trade routes.
Through a national lens, considering that last week there was a bear in downtown Calgary, Rob Ford is squealing about raccoons in Toronto (which, fucking eh, Rob, we finally agree, can we start squashing these masked gang-members with shovels? Remember this dude who almost went to jail for it?), quelling urban pests through seasonal culls isn't a bad idea.
In Hawai'i, many invaders could have been identified prior to becoming pests, through their spread within a few years after maturation.
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