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IUPAC Symposium 3B - Changing Pesticide use and Risk Scenarios with the Introduction of GM Crops Monday 3:30pm Gary Fitt, CSIRO Entomology GM cotton was released in 1996, as part of the fight …
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IUPAC Symposium 4B - Formulation, Efficacy and the Environment Monday 4:30pm Heping Zhu, United States Department of Agriculture “Current label-recommended levels of pesticides for spray …
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IUPAC Symposium 3A - Chemical Ecology and Crop Protection, Thursday 9:30am Peter Gregg, Cotton CRC A plant perfume that attracts female moths—a world-first attractant invented by the Cotton …
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Feeding weeds fertiliser sounds like exactly the wrong thing, if you want to get rid of them, but Jennifer Firn of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems has been doing just that—to control African lovegrass, …
A biotechnologist from the South Australian Research and Development Institute has taken using “everything but the pig’s squeal” to new lengths. Through clever recycling of pig waste, Andrew Ward has …
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