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Inexpensive wireless sensors with 99 percent accuracy expected to have applications fighting insect-borne diseases, such as malaria, and insects that damage crops ....
Pheromones are often used by farmers for controlling pest insects but the chemical process for producing them is expensive. A method for making them using bioengineered oil plants could be cheaper ....
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How Insect Sex Pheromones Are Saving Argentina’s Wine Industry Apr 10, 2021 The grapevine moth flocked to South American vineyards more than a decade ago. Now, wineries are utilizing a sustainable method of mating disruption to get rid of them. Argentinian vineyards are spraying a liquid, non-toxic pheromone called SPLAT Lobesia on their vines to stop grapevine moths from reproducing. Photography courtesy of ISCA Inc. In 2008, a new pest appeared in South American vineyards for the first time. The European grapevine moth, Lobesia botrana, was detected in Chile and soon after spread to Argentina, where it affected at least 30 percent of vineyards. ....
Scientists grow insect sex pheromones in transgenic camelina plant for sustainable pest control The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest control in agriculture. Scientists at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech company based in Riverside, Calif., and their collaborators in Sweden have successfully grown insect sex pheromone precursors in genetically modified strains of camelina plants, creating a low-cost source of pheromones needed for sustainable pest control. The Swedish research team from the Lund University, Swedish Agricultural University, and SemioPlant, modified the genetic code of these plants to contain genes of insects and other organisms that guide the formation of the desired pheromones. The plants produce insect pheromone precursor compounds in their abundant seed oil. ....