COMBINATIONS OF PLANT WATER-STRESS AND NEONICOTINOIDS CAN LEAD TO SECONDARY OUTBREAKS OF BANKS GRASS MITE (OLIGONYCHUS PRATENSIS BANKS).

Combinations of plant water-stress and neonicotinoids can lead to secondary outbreaks of Banks grass mite (Oligonychus pratensis Banks).

Spider mites, a cosmopolitan pest of agricultural and landscape plants, thrive under hot and dry conditions, which could become more frequent and extreme due to climate change.Recent work has shown that neonicotinoids, a widely used class of systemic insecticides that have come under scrutiny for non-target effects, can elevate spider mite populati

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Insights from novel word learning: Error analysis and its relevance in understanding fast versus slow mapping

Novel word learning refers to the process of learning words.The words are assumed to be acquainted Nail Treatment even after a short exposure and this phenomenon is termed as fast mapping.Some proponents believe that the new word learnt as a consequence of new word learning is momentous and the word may not be transferred to the lexicon if the word

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SECRET domain of variola virus CrmB protein can be a member of poxviral type II chemokine-binding proteins family

Abstract Background Variola virus (VARV) the causative agent of smallpox, eradicated in 1980, have wide spectrum of immunomodulatory proteins to evade host immunity.Recently additional biological activity was discovered for VARV CrmB protein, known to bind and inhibit tumour necrosis factor (TNF) through its N-terminal domain homologous to cellular

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