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- China: Climate change boosts spread of crop pests and diseases
- Germany: Climate change has ignited a fierce debate over how the nation should manage its trees
- Tomatoes at the forefront of a food revolution
- India: Pune fig plantations at risk of disease due to rain
- Scientists identify genes key to microbial colonization of plant roots
- Microbe sneaks past tomato defense system, advances evolutionary battle
- Controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria.
- How are insects doing? To find out scientists are going to the birds.
- Ghana: Swollen shoot disease of cocoa
- Genetic strategy reverses insecticide resistance
- Biocontrol of thrips on peppers
- India: chilli farmers face threats from invasive pests
- Electronic nose sniffs out whitefly infestations on tomato plants
- Bangladesh: Genetic engineering to improve food security
- China: GM soybean can increase yields by 12 percent, while GM corn can see yield increases of 6.7 to 10.7 percent.
