Increasing applied pesticide toxicity threatens plants and insects
E-Mail IMAGE: Insects and crustaceans in surface waters are among those exposed to increasing total applied pesticide toxicity. view more Credit: Renja Bereswill A group of scientists from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, has shown that for plants and insects the applied pesticide toxicity in agriculture has substantially increased between 2004 and 2016. In a paper published in the current issue of Science, the authors show that this pattern is even relevant in genetically ...
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