Pesticides – News and Features

Weed killers of the future could soon be based on failed antibiotics.

Researchers have identified 10 pesticides that significantly damaged neurons implicated in the development of Parkinson’s disease.

In this opinion piece, Neil Ward discusses how the passing of the Genetic Technology "Precision Breeding" Bill could support global efforts to increase food production sustainably.

Scientists report a dangerous and stubborn yeast causing outbreaks in a neonatal intensive care unit is evolving quickly and sexually reproducing at a much higher rate than related pathogens.

Researchers have developed an advanced method for detecting hazardous carbaryl insecticide residues.

Clean drinking water is essential. Therefore, an international research team has now shown how groundwater can be efficiently freed from pollutants such as glyphosate.

Researchers have shown that adding a small amount of a chemical used in perfumes – nonanal – to a two-chemical combination of other sex pheromones helped increase the cocktail’s effectiveness in mimicking female fall armyworm “come hither” calls to males.

Researchers have used precision gene engineering techniques to turn tobacco plants into solar-powered factories for moth sex pheromones.

The sunflower family’s spiny pollen vastly reduces the prevalence of a widespread parasite in bumblebees and increases the production of queens, a study has found.

A new study by researchers at the University of Sussex suggests that moths are more efficient at pollinating during the night than day-flying pollinators such as bees. The research is published in PLOS One.