With EPA approval in hand, PI AgSciences introduces PHC68949, peptide-based novel approach to control plant-parasitic ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. Some areas get very little rain each year. The soil is salty, and in some places it even contains harmful elements like arsenic.

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

A newly published study from the University of Guam sheds light on a tiny but powerful ally in the soil and how it could help ...

The study of fossilized resin stones containing several creatures allowed scientists to recreate the interactions between ...

At first glance, it’s a wonder that jumping parasitic nematodes exist at all. To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—hurl themselves up to 25 times their body length to ...

This breakthrough, detailed in Scientific Reports, highlights the potential use of nanotechnology to enhance biological and botanical pest control methods to advance sustainable agriculture. Eggplants ...

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, scientists have now spotted these towers naturally forming in rotting orchard fruit ...

It's the stuff of nightmares: countless worms slithering over each other to form a slimy tower that can move like a single superorganism. And yet researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal ...

Nematodes are a problem for growers when cotton prices are good. Nematodes are an even bigger problem for growers when cotton prices are not where we want them to be. Nematodes are a problem for ...

Pristionchus pacificus precision predation. Adult P. pacificus wildtype predating on C. elegans wildtype larvae that are composed of unique surface chemistry as identified using 3D-OrbiSIMS. Credit: ...

Every year, cotton growers in Texas and Oklahoma battle an unforeseen enemy—cotton nematodes. Unless you have a microscope, it is literally the invisible purveyor of death and destruction to cotton ...