date:Aug 23, 2019
ch at the University of Sheffields Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, led the study.
The RNA biocontrols we are working on with Syngenta can help to address the sustainability challenge for farming, he said.
The idea is that dsRNA is applied to the crops, then along comes the pest, which eats the crop. The dsRNA molecule then kills the pest by triggering the RNAi mechanism.
The advantage of this is that we can be highly selective. We have the ability to target a specific pest