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Carla Escapa, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Teresa Neuparth, Tiago Torres, Miguel M. Santos and Marta Otero
In this work, zebrafish embryo bioassays were performed to assess the efficiency of microalgae in the removal of acetaminophen from water. Chlorella sorokiniana (CS), Chlorella vulgaris (CV) and Scenedesmus obliquus (SO) were the strains used for water t...
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Luis J. Amaro Leal, Arturo Huerta de la Peña, Ignacio Ocampo Fletes, Pedro Antonio López, Nemesio Villa-Ruano and Omar Romero-Arenas
Leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) are one of the mos t economically harmful pests in agriculture, considered dominant in the Neotropics and South America. Mature colonies of A. mexicana have a great economic impact on Mexico?s agriculture. Microbial agents in ...
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Yuzhe Du, Shane Scheibener, Justin George, Narayanan Kannan and Maribel Portilla
The tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, and the red-banded stink bug, Piezodorus guildinii, pose significant economic threats to cotton and soybean crops in the mid-southern USA. However, the efficacy of insecticide spraying is comparatively low, and ...
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Waleed S. Alwaneen, Waqas Wakil, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Mirza Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Tahir, Khawaja G. Rasool, Mureed Husain, Abdulrahman S. Aldawood and David Shapiro-Ilan
The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae), is a destructive and voracious pest of palm species worldwide. Due to environmental and regulatory concerns, ecologically safe alternatives to synthetic chemical...
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Giuseppina Iacomino, Mohamed Idbella, Alessia Staropoli, Bruno Nanni, Tomaso Bertoli, Francesco Vinale and Giuliano Bonanomi
Wood vinegar is a by-product of the pyrolysis of organic raw materials. In this study, we investigated the chemical composition and biological activity of industrial wood vinegar derived from the pyrolysis of wood pruning waste. The composition of wood v...
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Tsuyoshi Ikehara and Naomasa Oshiro
Okadaic acids (OAs) are causative agents of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, produced by the dinoflagellates Dinophysis spp. and Prorocentrum spp. Microcystins (MCs) are cyclic heptapeptide hepatotoxins produced by some cyanobacteria genera, including Mic...
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Changyao Shan, Xinyue You, Li Li, Xin Du, Yonglin Ren and Tao Liu
Ethyl formate (EF), a naturally occurring fumigant, has attracted widespread attention owing to its low toxicity in mammals. Here, Direct Immersion Solid-Phase Microextraction (DI-SPME) was employed for sample preparation in mass spectrometry-based untar...
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Muthusamy Janaki, Pavana K. Sivadasan Unni, Vethamonickam Stanley-Raja, Sengottayan Senthil-Nathan, Bader O. Almutairi and Ahmed Abdel-Megeed
Agricultural pests can be effectively controlled using microbes, providing an eco-friendly alternative to available synthetic pesticides. Suitable entomopathogenic bacterial strains were collected from agricultural fields and evaluated for their insectic...
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Seinn Moh Moh, Shunya Tojo, Toshiaki Teruya and Hisashi Kato-Noguchi
Plant extracts with allelopathic activity and their related compounds have been investigated for a long time as an eco-friendly approach to sustainable weed management. Croton oblongifolius (Roxb.) is a traditional medicinal plant valued for its diverse ...
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Marta Olczyk, Elisabeth H. Koschier, Tomasz Wójtowicz and Maria Pobozniak
Thrips tabaci Lind. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a key pest of onions worldwide. It causes both direct and indirect damage to onion crops, resulting in high yield losses. Today, the Integrated System of Production and Plant Protection requires onion grow...
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