Making crops cry for help

Article Abstract:

Issues are presented concerning the release of chemicals which attract a crop pest's predators as a means of safeguarding a plant crop which is under attack. The development of environmentally friendly strategies for pest control are discussed.

Research, Plants, Plants (Organisms), Biological control, Pest control services, Diseases and pests, Agricultural pests, Pest control services industry

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An indifference to boundaries

Article Abstract:

The article discusses the process of dramatic departmental restructuring that is being undertaken by most of the world's largest universities to nurture the interdisciplinary research.

United Kingdom, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Organizational history, Colleges and universities, Evaluation, Universities and colleges, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company organization, Interdisciplinary approach in education, Interdisciplinary approach (Education)

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All creatures great and small

Article Abstract:

Issues relating to sizes of living creatures, and the debate on biological scaling laws derived from a study of fractal geometry, are examined in detail.

Analysis, Biological research, Fractals

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