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Pests in China are beginning to show signs of resistance to Bt Cotton © AgriLife Today (CC BY-NC-ND)

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including an advance in biological control, tips to drain soil, making the land usable and a study to develop strategies against Bollworm resistance to Bt Cotton in China.

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• Can Scientists (and Wasps) Save Orange Juice? [Slide Show and Video]
  Scientific American, 25th February 2013
• Mutated Moth Genes May Lead to Environmentally Friendly Pest Control
  Environmental News Network, 22nd February 2013
  
• Developing countries plant most GM crops
  FWi – Arable News, 21st February 2013
• Even sickly OSR can offer good returns
  FWi – Arable News, 21st February 2013
• UA Entomologists Partner with China to Thwart Bollworm Resistance to Bt Cotton
  UANews Science and Technology, 19th February 2013
• Nigeria: Researchers Empower the Poor Through Cassava Productivity
  AllAfrica News: Food and Agriculture, 19th February 2013
• Tips to help drain soils and get on the land
  FWi – Arable News, 18th February 2013
• Microbes team up to boost plants’ stress tolerance
  EurekAlert! – Agriculture, 17th February 2013
• Plants prevent fitness loss by caterpillars
  [Wetenschap] Resource, 14th February 2013
• Advance promises to expand biological control of crop pests
  EurekAlert! – Agriculture, 13th February 2013

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