Genome boost for nature-friendly pest control 2
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| Publisher | Milling & Grain |
| Year of publication | 2023 May |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
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| Scope & content | New open resource will accelerate research towards better targeted crop protection. A new database of 19 insect genomes encompassing some of the most damaging pests of crops worldwide has been made publicly available. It includes some of the most common pest threats faced by UK farmers including wireworm, cabbage stem flea beetle and pollen beetle, as well as other globally important species. It is hoped that the new database will help speed up the development of novel pest control approaches that can overcome resistance and create more nature friendly solutions to crop protection. The four-year Pest Genome Initiative (PGI), a consortium of Rothamsted Research and the agriscience companies Syngenta and Bayer, firstly sequenced the genomes, and then assembled them into their constituent chromosomes before adding information about what individual genes code for. Read about Benefits of the project and Target specific pesticides. |
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