Greenbugs (Schizaphis graminum) are known for their devastating effects on crops including cereal grains. Their saliva contains toxins, which break down the plants defenses and allow the aphids to utilize nitrogen from the ...

Hessian fly is a serious chronic wheat, barley and rye pest, that causes huge economical damage in the US every year. The goal of study was to investigate how the Hessian fly resistant wheat differs from the susceptible ...

Times are changing; however, our current state of extension information delivery has not yet evolved to match user need. For example, Kansas farmers can sometimes only find crop management information on the KSU website ...

Twospotted spider mites—Tetranychus urticae Koch—are a major pest, and so knowing as much about the pesky creatures as possible will allow those in horticultural fields to prepare better defenses against infestations, and ...

The European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis, is a common pest for corn crops in the United States and most of Europe (Hudan and LeRoux, 1986). Use of traditional pesticides to control ECB has resulted in the development ...

RNA interference (RNAi) was first discovered in nematodes when exogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) complementary to a specific gene suppressed expression of that gene [1]. Subsequently, much effort has been devoted to ...

Body size plays a critical role in animal survival. In fact, Bergmann's Rule states that larger animals should be more successful in colder environments (McNab 1971), although this may not be the case for ectotherms like ...

We found that a transgenic line of Tribolium castaneum, previously characterized for the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in the oenocyte (OE strain), shows unusual genetics based on the GFP expression patterns. ...

Many people believe that the only method of cooling down their horse is to walk them, and sometimes for long amounts of time depending on the work and length of work the horse was used for. Brushing a horse’s coat mimics ...

Ticks are obligate blood feeding ectoparasites and vectors of several animal and human pathogens (Williams-Newkirk et al., 2014). Ticks not only carry pathogens but also a bacterial community with commensal and symbiotic ...