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Abstract: We present the design and implementation of an image analysis system for the automatic analysis of Heliothis zea insect images. The Heliothis zea is a corn earworm eating corn crops. Biotech ...

Background Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are one of the key interventions in the global fight against malaria. Since 2014, mass distribution campaigns of LLINs aim for universal access by all ...

Nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV, Baculoviridae) that infect lepidopteran pests have an established record as safe and effective biological insecticides. Here, we describe a new approach for the ...

DDT is a synthetic insecticide belonging to a class of chemicals called organochlorides. Also known as dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, it is one of the most effective yet controversial synthetic ...

Bt maize is genetically engineered to express insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. Bt maize is used extensively by South African farmers to reduce yield losses caused by ...

1 Rice Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China. 2 State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Chengdu, China. During sporulation, Bt ...

aDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium bDepartment of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium ...

Vegemite has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons. It all started when Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion said he’d heard the yeast extract was being used in dry communities ...

Global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis are based on the annual mass administration of antifilarial drugs to reduce the microfilaria reservoir available to the mosquito vector.