The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, is a major agricultural pest responsible for considerable loss of stored grain and cereal products worldwide. T. castaneum larvae have a highly compartmentalized gut, with cysteine peptidases mostly in the acidic anterior part of the midgut that are critical to the early stages of food digestion. In previous studies, we described 26 putative cysteine p...

Squill [Urginea maritima (L.) Baker, Liliaceae] is a native medicinal and ornamental plant from the Mediterranean area. The bulbs were an ancient source of rodenticide products replaced later on by warfarin and modern anticoagulant raticides. Since rats have developed resistance to such products there is now renewed interest in the species. In the 1950s, attempts were made in the United States ...

Conventional chemical control compounds used for the management of insect pests have been much maligned, but still serve a critical role in protecting people and agricultural products from insect pests, as well as conserving biodiversity by eradicating invasive species. Although biological control can be an effective option for area-wide management of established pests, chemical control methods...

After rice and wheat, Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food crop worldwide and provides high quality nutrition, especially food energy, vitamin C, potassium, protein and dietary fiber [1,2]. Due to their short production cycle, potatoes provide food faster than cereals or legumes and produce more food calories per hectare, and use less water as compared to either wheat ...

Calculation method has been developed and mathematical models of the main parameters operating modes microwave installations for disinfecting grain ensuring required temperature regime, rate heating by controlling have obtained. The use improves process disinfection from pathogenic microflora pests. Microwave technologies include a number operations that allow to be disinfected up 75-85% living...

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