Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
...lly occurring shelters, known as "leafdomatia," on cotton plants, the researchers reduced the populationsof cotton-eating spidermites and boosted cotton yield by 30 percent. These results, offeringthe first experimental evidence that plants and certain ...Enhancin Protein Attacks Insect Immune System
...tive against the fall armyworm, beet armyworm, the cotton bollworm, the American budworm, the velvetbean caterpillar and the common armyworm. In the future, growers may use polyhedron crystals -- which contain enhancin and a pest-specific baculovirus. A pesky caterpillar, for example, will eat part of a ...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
...own as the cabbage looper, which feeds on cabbage, cotton and crucifers. But the insects are living on the edge. "Patrick [Hughes] is a very observant man and because he's observant, he came up with a brilliant idea -- the HeRD system," Wood said. What Hughes observed is that insects prefer getting their...New Microbial Insecticide As Potent As Bt
... which this year account for20 percent of the U.S. cotton crop and nearly 10 million acres of transgeniccorn, mostly in the Midwest. As a form of biological pest control, Bt is the only bacterium from whichwidespread commercial insecticidal applications have been possible, giving it,in effect, a microbial m...Upcoming 'Century Of Biology' Given Head Start By NSF Plant Genome Research Program Grants
... Wilkins and collaboratorswill investigate certain cotton genes that impart unique, economically importantproperties to the fiber. "Enhanced understanding of this complex trait holdsgreat promise for the genetic improvement of cotton," Wilkins believes. The tomato is another economically-important ...Patented Bait System May Hold Answer To Combating Formosan Termites
An historic 150-year-old cotton warehouse on New Orleans' riverfrontnear the Garden District is the site of a full-scale field test of a newpatented bait system that holds the promise of controlling dreaded Formosansubterranean termites. Dr. Gregg Henderson and Dr. Jian Che...Russia Has Designs On Its Astronauts' Used Underwear
...igning acocktail of bacteria to digest astronauts' cotton and paper underpants. Theresulting methane gas could be used to power spacecraft, they claim. "This will be a revolution in the science of biodegradation," saysVyacheslav Ilyin, project director and head of the microbial ecology laboratoryat ...Ironing Out Cotton Wrinkles Without An Iron
New finish for cotton fabric now under commercial development ANAHEIM, Calif., March 22 -- Wrinkle-free cotton clothing made with a newand environmentally friendly method will soon be on the market, according to...Coffee Without Addiction, Possible New Treatment For Osteoporosis, Wrinkle-Free Cotton, And More
...cost-effective and environmentallysound finish for cotton fabric has been developed by chemists to make cottonwrinkle-free; the new finish is under commercial development. Juiced-Up Solutions for Human and Environmental Health: Chemists will report oncitrus limonoids, which show anticancer potential for ...Montana Hantavirus Study Looks At Why The Mouse Goes Into The House
...One building is baited with peanut butter, one has cotton nestingmaterial, and the third is empty. "It's clear that they visit buildings for food, much more so than forbedding or shelter," Douglass said. The ones that go in the empty buildings maybe drawn by the scent of a mate, a theory he plans to...Engineered Corn Can Kill Monarch Butterflies
...s. As of last year, transformed corn, potatoes and cotton had been approved by theU.S. Department of Agriculture for commercial use. Several factors make monarch caterpillars particularly likely to make contactwith corn pollen, Losey says. Monarch larvae feed exclusively on milkweedbecause it provides pr...Congress briefs: International congress on ecosystem health
...ing dustemitted by harvesting of almonds, walnuts, cotton and figs in California's SanJoaquin Valley. Session: T36 -- Fertile and Fallow Paper: "Fallow Land Patches and Ecosystem Health in an Agro-Ecosystem" Summary: John Hopkins of the UC Center for Water and Wildland Resources at UCDavis will discu......rt on theextent of damage caused by machine-drying cotton fabrics at the highesttemperature settings, compared to other methods of drying. (See page 74, CELL83, Wednesday, August 25, at 4:45 p.m., Convention Center, Room 256, in thefinal program.) Catnip's Chemistry Repels Roaches: Results of studies on the...Cotton fabrics damaged by high dryer temperatures
...h temperature settings on clothes dryers candamage cotton fabrics, according to a study presented here today...hen repeatedly machine dried at high temperatures, cotton fabricseventually tear more easily than those tumble-dried at room temperature,drip-dried indoors or...Why are the elderly so easily fooled by con artists?
...d decks, and 11 others were slower than average to cotton on. "They don't develop risk aversion," says Tranel. The researchers think some older people may suffer age-related damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and that the damage goes undetected because they are otherwise completely healthy. This...Global warming threatens state's quality of life
...icularly vulnerable would be crops such as grapes, cotton and alfalfa that require large irrigation allotments. Hotter, dryer summers also would likely lead to an increase in wildfires that endanger citizens' lives and property, said Davis, who studied those concerns. "There's a real chance that ... wild...Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...r and any fractures or degradation. 'Doctored up' cotton for improved healing Innovative methods of altering cotton gauze to enhance the healing of chronic wounds are being developed by researchers at Pacific Northwe...Tailoring new cotton genes for industry
...ists are working to improve the quality of natural cotton fibres themselves. Cotton fibres are unique. Each ...g. Thousands of them together form a white, fluffy cotton boll that is harvested when mature, and all the fibres from a single boll are developmentally identi...Purdue researcher solves sorghum mystery
...ers plant sorghum when weather isn't favorable for cotton or wheat. Sorghum thrives in dry climates, he said. "If we can get the price of sorghum up, we can make sorghum a primary crop," Watson said. In the coming years, sorghum could find its way onto many Americans' kitchen tables. The absence of gluten, ...UC Davis expert identifies oak-tree killer and warns public to use caution
...cope, colonies of the fungus look like clusters of cotton fibers, he said. Those little creatures are highly fecund, he found; a single organism kept at 59 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit can produce thousands of offspring in 24 hours. Those offspring, called zoospores, are released from little lemon-shaped sacs n...