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Category: Pesticide

Posted on December 21, 2019

Painting cows with zebra stripes cuts insect attacks

Instead of using pesticides, painting cows with zebra-like stripes led to 50% reduction in the number of biting flies. As a result, cows painted with white stripes showed 20% reduction…

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Posted on October 20, 2018October 20, 2018

inStem’s skin gel may protect farmers from toxic pesticides

A team led by inStem researchers has developed a gel for topical application to prevent organophosphate-based pesticides from causing any adverse effects including death. The gel hydrolyses ester found in…

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Posted on September 22, 2018September 23, 2018

A simple way to detect organophosphoporus pesticides in tomatoes, apples

Researchers from Jadavpur University and Visva-Bharati University have synthesised a MOF that is capable of detecting organophosphoporus pesticides both in water solution and in apples and tomatoes. The MOF is…

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Posted on June 30, 2018June 30, 2018

UoH team makes harpin biopesticide more potent by increasing its bioavailability

University of Hyderabad researchers encapsulated harpin biopesticide in chitosan nanoparticles and achieved 80-90% reduction in severity of fungal infection in tomato plants. The chitosan nanoparticles containing harpin pass through the cell wall and…

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Posted on May 5, 2018September 22, 2018

Bacteria isolated from domestic sewage remove organophosphorus pesticide

Researchers have used three bacteria species isolated from domestic sewage to remove chloropyrifos, an organophosphorous pesticide, from water and soil samples. The bacteria absorb the pesticide without leaving behind any…

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Posted on January 29, 2017January 30, 2017

Tamil Nadu researchers show chronic exposure to commonly used insecticide causes diabetes

A study by scientists at Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, has found evidence that long-term exposure to organophosphate insecticides induces diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in both mice and…

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Posted on August 7, 2016August 10, 2016

IISc researchers find endosulfan causes DNA damage in animals

For the first time, researchers in India have found that mice and rats exposed to endosulphan suffer from DNA damage and genomic instability, and impaired DNA damage response. The results…

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Posted on January 23, 2016June 11, 2016

IISc: endosulfan induces infertility in male mice

If an association between the widely used pesticide, endosulfan and male infertility has been found in the case of humans living in areas where it has been extensively used, laboratory…

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