An adjuvant is mixed with the herbicide to ensure better adherence to leaves. 4 Adjunct Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position. Adjuvant In pharmacology, an adjuvant is a drug or other substance, or a combination of substances, that is used to increase the efficacy...
Staying with tomato, one can easily imagine that breeding of larger fruits has to be coupled to other changes in the plant. Not only an increase in fruit size by increasing cell number had to be implemented during the breeding process but also the chemical composition is adapted via the accum...
Roundup, the US company's popular herbicide, was already making bad headlines in the wake of a damning 2015 study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The report concluded the weed killer's main component, glyphosate, was "probably carcinogenic in humans." According to t...
In contrast,eating more plant-proteins was linked with lower mortality and lower risk of disease.This is not the first study to find this link! In fact, eating more plant proteins is associated with lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels and makes insulin work better. In addition, substitu...
Surfactants have been widely used as adjuvants in agri-sprays to enhance the solubility of pesticides in foliar spray deposits and their mobility through leaf cuticles. Previously, we have characterised pesticide solubilisation in nonionic surfactant micelles, but what happens when pesticides become solu...
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There was even higher exposure to fungicides and adjuvants. It is misleading for the pesticide companies to blame the problems on varroa, nosema, or poor nutrition. The above survey (over 1000 samples) found that the average varroa infestation rate in the U.S. in autumn is above the danger...
Bt seed was introduced to control corn rootworm as well. Economists from USDA’s Economics Research Service report it is hard to estimate the true costs and benefits of Bt corn because of “weather, infestation levels and seed costs, along with conservation tillage, crop rotation, and other pe...