Occupationally exposed workers, farm workers and plant protection agents in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso were interviewed to assess adverse health effects of insecticides. The subjects were also examined for changes in both hematological and biochemical parameters. The prevalence of liver and kidney dysfunction was found to be quite high among insecticide applicators, especially among plant...

The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of protection on herbaceous species composition, total plant cover, dry matter, plant density, floristic richness and diversity. Characteristics of vegetation under continued grazing and protected area for 10 and 65 years were examined in a degraded arid environment in South Tunisia. Our results show that protection enhances significantly ...

Nanoparticles and nanotechnology have been applied in agriculture, including for plant nutrition improvement, and pest control. Little research has been conducted on nano-calcium carbonate in plant protection and nutrition. In this study, we compared the effects of nano-calcium carbonate and colloidal calcium carbonate and found that nano-calcium carbonate treatments were better at increasing c...

A collection of desiccation-tolerant xeroprotectant-producing microorganisms was screened for their ability to protect plants against drought, and their role as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria was investigated in two different crops (tomato and pepper). The most commonly described biochemical mechanisms for plant protection against drought by microorganisms including the production of phyt...

The responsibility for protecting U.S. agriculture from pests and diseases is assigned by the Federal Plant Pest Act (FPPA) to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture. The Plant Protection Act (Title 7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq.) gives Aphis statutory authority over genetically modified organisms (GMO), in effect assigning to APHIS a related res...

In natural ecosystems, disease is not the rule, but a rare outcome in the spectrum of plant–microbe interaction, since plants have developed, during their evolutionary history, various defence strategies to face pathogens. Therefore, in this evolutionary arms race, plants have (co)evolved a complex set of defence mechanisms to counteract pathogen challenging and, in most cases, prevent infectio...

Sustainable agriculture with low inputs of chemicals and fertilizers has been recently attracting more attention from producers researchers in the EU. The main reason for such is European Green Deal—the EU’s latest growth strategy concerning environmental degradation climate change. One its components Farm to Fork strategy, which especially features reduction pesticide mineral fertilizer applic...

Because of the rapid development nanotechnologies, materials, in particular, solid dispersions (SDs), which are actively introduced into life modern man, have been obtained. Special progress this area is observed industry and medicine. The use SDs agriculture lagging far behind, despite growing number scientific papers on topic. At same time, prospects for introduction agro-industrial complex o...

The enactment of Intellectual Property protection laws globally and involvement private seed industry in India had become indispensable for IP agriculture as whole plant varieties particular. For varieties, the Distinctiveness Uniformity Stability (DUS) descriptors various crops (vegetables, field crops, floriculture, horticulture etc.) were developed notified by Protection Plant Varieties Farm...