Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large groups of aphids and/or the sticky residue they leave behind after feeding. (Or, on plants with tightly-packed leaves like ...

Aphids can run riot on a wide range of plants in the garden, whether you're growing vegetables or flowers. No one enjoys the ...

BYDV was a major topic at last week’s Irish Tillage and Land Use Society’s winter conference. Conor Kehoe reports.

Aphids are harmful to roses, and a wide range of other popular garden plants, for many reasons. First, aphids snack on the ...

They spread by producing crawling young which find new areas to colonise then produce young. In July winged forms fly off to infest other plants. Breeding stops in autumn when immature aphids seek ...

实验室取食实验显示，与受体对照相比，取食RNAi棉花叶片的蚜虫的 AgDPPS1 基因表达量受到抑制；随取食时间延长，取食RNAi棉花叶片的蚜虫生存率显著降低。新疆农垦科学院生物技术研究所试验基地中间试验统计结果表明，定殖RNAi棉花叶片的蚜虫数量显著低于受体对照。科研人员收集田间蚜虫，进行Northern blot检测。结果显示，定殖RNAi棉花的蚜虫的 AgDPPS1 ...

近期，中国科学院微生物研究所郭惠珊研究团队在Plant Biotechnology Journal发表题为“HIGS-mediated crop protection against cotton aphids”的研究论文。团队通过在棉花中表达特异性靶向棉蚜AgDPPS1基因的dsRNA，获得了抗蚜虫的棉花新种质。

it gives the reader not only the insight to the partial problem of the selected aphid species and their hosts but it serves also as a model for studying other ecological tasks.' Thaiszia: Journal of ...

Dr Christopher Teh, soil biologist and senior lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia answers gardening questions in Star2’s monthly gardening column, Ready, Set, Grow!, which is brought to you by ...