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Transgenic plants have been engineered to possess several desirable traits, such as resistance to pests, herbicides, or harsh environmental conditions, improved product shelf life, and increased nut...

Research aims for insecticide that targets malaria mosquitoes

A team of scientists is working toward an insecticide that would target malaria-carrying mosquitoes but do no harm to other organisms.

Online Mapping System Helps Fight Malaria By Tracking Mosquito Resistance To Insecticides Used To Prevent Malaria

Aggregrated "IR Mapper" database provides global direction on insecticide resistance management The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria was launc...

Syngenta to buy DuPont insecticide business

Swiss seed company Syngenta said Wednesday that it has agreed to pay $125 million for DuPont Professional Products' insecticide business, which supplies products for the professional turf, ornamental...

More sustainable integrated vector management strategies are needed for malaria control

Insecticide resistance is threatening the effectiveness of insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor insecticide sprays to control adult mosquito vectors, and so more sustainable integrated management s...

To Maintain Malaria Control, More Sustainable Integrated Vector Management Strategies Are Needed

Insecticide resistance is threatening the effectiveness of insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor insecticide sprays to control adult mosquito vectors, and so more sustainable integrated management s...

Use Of Bed Nets By 75 Percent Of Population Could Eradicate Malaria

Malaria, the leading cause of death among children in Africa, could be eliminated if three-fourths of the population used insecticide-treated bed nets, according to a new study from the National Insti...

Insecticide resistance caused by recombination of 2 genes

(Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) Insecticide resistance in crop pests is a serious global problem. Scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have found o...

Lower IQs Seen In Boys Exposed In The Womb To The Insecticide Chlorpyrifos

A new study is the first to find a difference between how boys and girls respond to prenatal exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos. Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental H...

Antioxidant and Repellent Activities of the Essential Oil from Colombian Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson.

The chemical composition of essential oils isolated from aerial parts of Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson was analyzed using hydrodistillation by GC-MS. The main constituents found were β-pine...

Validated high performance thin layer chromatographic method for simultaneous quantification of major iridoids in Vitex trifolia and their antioxidant studies.

Negundoside (1), agnuside (2) and 6'-p-hydroxy benzoyl mussaenosidic acid (3) are known bioactive metabolites in Vitex trifolia. In the present study a simple precise and reproducible method was devel...

Labdane-Type Diterpenoids from the Fruits of Vitex trifolia.

Seven new labdane-type diterpenoids, vitextrifolins A-G (1-7), along with eight previously reported analogues, were isolated from the fruits of Vitex trifolia. The structures of 1-7 were elucidated by...

Insect ryanodine receptor: distinct but coupled insecticide binding sites for N-c(3)h(3)chlorantraniliprole, flubendiamide, and (3)hryanodine.

Radiolabeled anthranilic diamide insecticide [N-C(3)H(3)]chlorantraniliprole was synthesized at high specific activity. It was compared with phthalic diamide insecticide flubendiamide and [(3)H]ryanod...

Major effect genes or loose confederations? The development of insecticide resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

ABSTRACT: Insecticide use in public health and agriculture presents a dramatic adaptive challenge to target and non-target insect populations. The rapid development of genetically modulated resistance...