Sentence examples for pests compared to from inspiring English sources

It has been found that, irrespective of pesticides supplementation, tea plantation at Bogidhola Tea Estate in Golaghat district, Assam, are rarely affected by pests compared to other tea plantation areas of the district.

O. s. indica cultivars have higher genetic diversity (Lu et al. [2002]), a broader cultivation range, and stronger resistance to prominent diseases and insect pests compared to O. s. japonica cultivars (Chung and Heu [1991]).

The accrued results amply indicate that the ASAL expressing transgenic rice exhibit a distinctly higher-level of resistance against both BPH and GLH pests as compared to that of GNA [ 23] and ASAL [ 38] expressing rice lines.

86% agreed or strongly agreed that NEWA pest forecast information alerts them to the risk of pest damage, compared to 90% in 2007.

Fitness costs are typically more prevalent and extensive in pests with high compared to low levels of Bt resistance (Gassmann et al. 2009).

Although mixing pesticides can increase efficacy against pests and diseases compared to single applications of each pesticide, care should be taken to ensure that the pesticides being combined are compatible with no antagonism and cannot cause plant toxicity [ 34].

The European Commission's own research shows that the causes of declines in bee health are many, and pesticides play a very small part when compared to pests and diseases.

Our results combined suggest that landscape scale changes in agricultural land use and increased spring temperatures both have contributed to the increased pest abundances observed 2008 2011 compared to 1935 1937.

According to Sharma et al. (2011), the performance of EPNs has got more success in controlling soil insects when compared to foliar pests.

More recently, Crisostomo et al. reported an increased risk of spontaneous abortion among conventional pesticide users compared to integrated pest management (IPM) users in the Philippines [ 5].

Vegetable such as lettuce can be used in aquaponics system, because it can be harvested in a short time (3 4 weeks in the system), and relatively fewer problems with pests compared with fruiting plants, has low to medium nutritional requirements and is well adapted to aquaponic systems (Diver 2006, Rakocy et al. 2006).