date:Aug 23, 2019
Food researchers are collaborating with the agriculture industry to develop a natural sustainable pesticide alternative that targets specific pests without harming honeybees.
Researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield are collaborating with industry partner, agricultural company Syngenta, on a pioneering biocontrol that uses dsRNA-based biocontrols to target plant pests.
RNA-based biocontrols exploit a naturally occurring process called RNA interference