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Plants Wake Up Early to Prepare for Battle Rice University scientists discovered in a new study that plants begin their preparations for the day's battle with hungry insects even before the Sun comes up. They studied a case where the plants were getting ready to fend off hungry caterpillars. Researches such as this are conducted in order to gain a bette...	14 February 2012 04:28 GMT

Cornfields Have Predatory Bugs' Protection The corn rootworm is one of the worst pests of corn in the world, and the fact that it is thriving and currently spreading across Europe is due to its larvas' foul, sticky blood.Jonathan G. Lundgren is an entomologist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and made this discovery recently, along with his col...	1 December 2010 05:24 GMT

Organic Farming Views Prevail Over 'Modern' Ones The debate between proponents of organic farming and those of modern agriculture appears to have been settled in favor of the former, a 10-year-long study on the issue reveals. For people doing it, organic farming represents the most vivid example of the balance of nature. They view the lands where crops grow as the ...	26 August 2010 03:15 GMT

Pests Develop Resistance to GM Crop-Produced Pesticides Experts have recently been horrified to learn that some pests have developed immunity to a lot of chemicals that genetically modified (GM) crops produce, for the specific purpose of keeping the former away. The find is potentially devastating because food supplies of a certain type could be in peril around the world,...	8 July 2009 02:53 GMT

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