plant disease pest News
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How to use non-crop plants
This is the fifth article in a six-part series providing practical information of an overall IPM program. Vineland investigates the role of non-crop plants for pest and disease management. These plants are not grown to sell, but only to create an environment that is detrimental to pests and diseases and/or beneficial to biological control ...
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Marrone Bio Innovations strengthens zequanox commercial operations
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) continues to strengthen and expand commercial operations with the addition of Dennis Bitter as Zequanox Commercial Manager. Dennis joins MBI with extensive experience in water and waste water markets. He will oversee North American sales of Zequanox, an effective new natural product for the control of invasive zebra and quagga mussels in freshwater lakes and ...
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Digital certificates to boost controls over spread of plant pests and diseases
The creation of a new global electronic certification system that will help curb the spread of plant pests and diseases through international trade in a more secure and cost-effective way has been approved by representatives from 181 countries. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), the governing body of the International Plant Protection Convention agreed to develop a global system of ...
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Potassium permanganate controlling plant diseases and pests
Potassium permanganate is a strong oxidant, strong sterilization, disinfection for control vegetable seedling damping-off, blight, downy mildew, soft rot, wilt, root rot, virus good disease and other effects. Together, rich in manganese, potassium, there are bound to crop yield. Seed disinfection with warm water cabbage, broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables seeds 1 hour, then potassium ...
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Elin D. Miller Elected to Marrone Bio Innovations Board
Marrone Bio Innovations, a leading provider of effective and environmentally friendly natural pest management products, is pleased to announce the appointment of Elin D. Miller to its Board of Directors. "The company will benefit greatly from Elin's leadership and advice," said Pam Marrone, Founder and CEO of the company. "Her broad knowledge and management experience in both the business and ...
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Marrone Bio Innovations Raises $25.4 Million Series C Financing
Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) is pleased to announce the closing of a $25.4 million private round of financing with three new investors and re-investment of existing investors. New investors investing in this Series C preferred financing are Syngenta Ventures, Mitsui Global Investment, and a family investment trust. Existing investors include Stuart Mill Venture Partners, Contrarian ...
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Keeping plant pests and diseases at bay: experts focus on global measures
How to prevent insects, bacteria, viruses and weeds from infesting fruit, vegetable and other plant and food consignments and then spreading across the world is the focus of a four-day gathering of international experts which began at FAO today. The annual meeting of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), the governing body of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), brings ...
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Marrone Bio Innovations Celebrates Fifth Year of Success
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), a leading provider of effective, natural pest management products for agriculture and water resource management, today announced it is celebrating its five year anniversary. Since incorporating in June 2006, MBI has experienced rapid growth as it delivers on its mission to fill unmet pest management needs in agriculture and water resource management. Over the past ...
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Marrone Bio innovations celebrates fifth year of success
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), a leading provider of effective, natural pest management products for agriculture and water resource management today announced it is celebrating its five year anniversary. Since incorporating in June 2006, MBI has experienced rapid growth as it delivers on its mission to fill unmet pest management needs in agriculture and water resource management. Over the past ...
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Marrone Bio Innovations Honored for Innovative Water Technology
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) today announced its selection by The Artemis Project™ as a winner in the Top 50 Water Companies Competition. This award highlights MBI's product Zequanox™ as one of the most promising, innovative technologies coming to the marketplace.Zequanox™ is an effective natural product for the control of invasive zebra and quagga mussels that are aggressively multiplying in ...
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Marrone bio innovations honored for innovative water technology
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) today announced its selection by The Artemis Project™ as a winner in the Top 50 Water Companies Competition. This award highlights MBI’s product Zequanox™ as one of the most promising, innovative technologies coming to the marketplace. Zequanoxä is an effective natural product for the control of invasive zebra and quagga mussels that are ...
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Lifeasible Helps Digg into Plant Immunity Knowledge for Botany Research
Lifeasible, an experienced biotechnology company focused on all aspects of Plant Immunity Services, now supports its customers' research with services that cover plant adversity resistance, plant pest resistance, plant pathology, plant viruses, plant antibiotics, and identification & analysis of plant disease resistance. There are two main types of infestation that plants suffer, one being ...
By Lifeasible
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Pam Marrone Recognized for Leadership & Innovation by NRDC
Pam Marrone, founder and CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), a leading developer of environmentally responsible biopesticides based in Davis, California, was recognized today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as a recipient of a prestigious 2011 Growing Green Award. Named 2011 Business Leader winner, Marrone has launched three successful companies that develop bio-based ...
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Countries need better science to win trade disputes
With disputes about the quality of exports on the rise, developing countries need to boost scientific capacity to win claims, says Joel D. Adriano. In today's highly competitive global economy, science has a crucial role to play in commerce. Traditionally it has driven the technologies used in the industrial production of everything from mobile phones to pharmaceuticals. More recently, it has ...
By SciDev.Net
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Dutch-German research team develops new integrated crop protection system for greenhouse horticulture
The Dutch-German ‘Healthy Greenhouse’ project offers a completely new ‘total concept’ for crop protection in modern greenhouse horticulture. This new ‘Healthy Greenhouse System’ enables growers to produce high-quality crops without pests and diseases. After four years of research the results of the Interreg project ‘Healthy Greenhouse’ will be ...
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Plant Genebanking: Investing Seeds for the Future
For many years, the agricultural sector has worked on the continuous development of sustainable practices to provide sufficient food and medicine supply for a growing population. Among the many challenges they aim to resolve are the issues inflicted by plant disease outbreaks and upsurge, pests, and climate change. The conservation and increase of diversity of plant species are recognized ...
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Waste Management: The Power Of Composting
COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the entire world into a state of disarray. It has further exposed how the linear economy cripples economic resilience, exacerbates social inequality and depletes natural resources. As with sustainability and climate change- related challenges, the virus has no respect for political, geographical, or religious boundaries. Today, we are more aware than ever of the ...
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Choice of winter cover crop mixture steers summer crop yield
Scientists from Wageningen University & Research demonstrate that the productivity of a next main crop can be manipulated through the choice of species in a preceding winter cover crop mixture. They report their latest findings in the Journal of Applied Ecology of 2nd of June. With their publication, the scientist agree with recommendations of FAO to included cover crops in rotations, on ...
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App ‘trained’ to spot crop disease, alert farmers
Researchers win grant to further test app for smallholders App diagnoses deadly cassava diseases in field, sends alerts Roll-out in Africa needs engagement with farmers, says expert A team of scientists has received US$100,000 grant to refine a mobile application (app) that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose crop diseases, and aims to help millions of African ...
By SciDev.Net
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Biodiversity is the basis for Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is now the norm in agriculture and horticulture. All stakeholders – national and European government agencies and public bodies, agriculture and horticulture organisations, businesses, universities and research institutes – agree with this statement. "More biodiversity and the use of resistant plants are crucial to the successful implementation of ...
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