Minnesota Partnership targets aphids

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 10:49 in Biology & Nature

Medical scientists in Minnesota are focusing their expertise on a pest that destroys soybeans. The goal of the Minnesota Partnership team is to develop an insecticide that is safe for humans but will kill the soybean aphid, a bug that's been ravaging Minnesota crops. Their findings appear in the journal Public Library of Science - PLoS One...

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