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The potential for modifying plant volatile composition to enhance resistance to arthropod pests.
Plant volatiles provide herbivorous arthropods with information that allows them to discriminate between host and non-host plants. Volatiles may als...
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Weed control with methyl bromide alternatives.
Methyl bromide (MeBr) has been used for several decades for preplant (PRE) soil fumigation in high-value agricultural and horticultural crops becaus...
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Increasing the vitamin E content of food by in-plant production.
Vitamin E is a group of eight, lipid-soluble molecules known as tocochromanols, featuring a conserved head group and an aliphatic side chain. They are...
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Bt plants and effects on soil micro-organisms.
The continued and increasing adoption of genetically modified plants (GMPs) in agriculture has raised both perspectives on increasing the productivit...
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Ethylene response factors and their role in plant defence.
The APETALA2/Ethylene response factor (AP2/ERF) family of transcription factors (TFs) plays crucial roles in the regulation of gene expression during ...
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Costs and benefits of induced resistance to herbivores and pathogens in plants.
While once considered noise in the background of constitutive resistance, the phenomenon of induced resistance to herbivores and pathogens is now firm...
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The role of plant viroids in diseases -new developments.
Viroids are tiny infectious agents of plants, consisting exclusively of a small (246-401 nucleotides) circular RNA lacking protein-coding ability. Li...
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Plant health challenges for a sustainable land use and rural economy.
Plant health is a key condition for a sustainable land use and rural economy. Drawing on a Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU)-funded project on the gr...
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Using RT-PCR for plant RNA virus detection.
Plants can be infected by a wide range of viruses that often cause important agronomic, economic and social impacts. Detection of viruses at prematur...
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Using Serratia plymuthica to control fungal pathogens of plants.
Interest in biological control of plant pathogens has increased in recent years fuelled by trends in agriculture towards greater sustainability and p...
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