Since insecticides are the most prevalent way of controlling crop damage from pests, their overuse has rendered pests ...

Insecticides have been used for centuries to counteract widespread pest damage to valuable food crops. Eventually, over time, ...

is now calling for 'urgent' research into whether this type of resistance could emerge for other pesticides. What is ...

Just as crop-devouring insects evolve to resist pesticides, cancer cells can increase their lethality by developing ...

A Perth-based geospatial tech firm has unveiled its latest innovation, a data visualisation tool which can display the distribution and severity of pesticide resistance across Australia.

Micieli stressed that “once resistance is found ... it is necessary to rethink the campaigns and analyze the possibility of alternating chemical insecticides with biological methods, bait-traps ...

But pests may eventually evolve so that these pesticides are ineffective ... Induced resistance may not only help reduce the threats posed by pests. Other types of induced resistance could improve ...

Researchers explore how established agricultural pest management strategies could be adapted to address cancer therapy. The pioneering method opens new possibilities for controlling drug resistance ...