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Biological PC
Made it
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2009
Savvy Soumya Misra
Science for ecology
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2001
Down To Earth and the Centre for Science and Environment announce that the winner of the 2001 Green Scientist Award is V P Sharma , former head of the Malaria Research Centre.
Letter
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
Tango with nature
Undercover agents
Issue Date: May 15, 2010
with chemical pesticides accumulating in crops, entering the food chain and creating pests with the next level of immunity, biocontrol is taken a little more seriously. Bacteria, fungi and insect parasitic nematodes assume greater importance in agricultural research.
Biocontrolling congress grass
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
Agents to control this dreaded weed work well in labs, need to be taken to fields
Bee aware
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Tip for farmers: caterpillars fear the sound of bee wings
No pesticides no debts
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2009
Enabavi and Ramachandrapuram villages broke away from the pesticide-debt trap. They are now teaching other villages to become debt free and self-reliant
Pollinator security
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
Fungi terminator for bee killer
the buzz around declining honeybees might recede somewhat. Researchers at the University of Warwick in the uk are studying ways to deliver a naturally occurring fungi into beehives to kill the varroa mite--one of the biggest threats to honey bees.
Bytes
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
saving maize: Scientists have developed an effective form of biological control for a toxin-producing fungus that plagues crops in sub-Saharan Africa and poses serious health risks to people. The method uses a component of the fungus Aspergillus to control itself. Scientists from Germany, the us and Nigeria have carried out the research.
