With Valentine’s Day just passed, love is in the air, and what better time is there to dive into the fascinating world of animal pheromones? Pheromones are chemical scent molecules released by a ...
A bioengineered oilseed plant can produce a moth sex pheromone molecule used to control insect pests. Pheromones are chemical signals that cause a behavioural response in members of the same or ...
The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest control in agriculture. Scientists at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech company based in Riverside, Calif.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have discovered that pheromones essential for mating behavior in mice are recognized by the nose and not by the vomeronasal system, as researchers ...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest control in agriculture. Scientists at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech company based ...
Sexually confusing moths has emerged as a way to force the pests out of the wardrobe. In a new pest control treatment, experts lured male moths and covered them in a “perfume” of artificial pheromones ...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Agricultural Pheromones Market: Focus on Species Type (Codling Moth and Gypsy Moth), Application (Detection & Monitoring and Control and Kill) and Crop Type (Field ...
(Beyond Pesticides, August 27, 2007) Santa Clara County agriculture officials are hopeful that “mating disruption technology” – not pesticides – will eradicate the light brown apple moth, a tiny ...
The Danish start-up BioPhero has raised $17 million in a first round of funding from DCVC Bio, FMC Ventures, Syngenta Group Ventures, and Nova Holdings. The company produces insect pheromones using ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Locusts are voracious eaters with appetites that extend to members of their own ...
The crop science company FMC is acquiring the pheromone producer BioPhero for $200 million. BioPhero, a Danish start-up that spun out of Irina Borodina’s lab at the Technical University of Denmark in ...