Control of Agricultural Pests
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All over the world a huge effort is being made to fight these pests and now new weapons have been added to man's armoury in this battle. These are radioactive isotopes and radiation sources. Their contribution to the control of agricultural pests is not yet precisely calculable, but several promising lines of attack have been opened up and some concrete r e sults already achieved. The main value of radioisotopes lies in the fact that they are unique instruments for the study of insects, that is , their physiological composition and biochemical processes, their biological habits, and their behavior in relation to their surroundings.
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