Plant cells help bees get a grip on their diet
Plant cells help bees get a grip on their diet. If a bee is stressed, it may eat the plants for energy, or stop searching for them entirely and simply stay away from flowers. Plants that don’t have a protective layer can become vulnerable to plant parasites and diseases.
Researchers believe plants such as cabbage and kale could have been bred to contain the protective layer of the bacterium called lactic acid bacteria. The bacterium was found in most cabbage grown around the world, but it is found in little or no crop grown outside the U.S. It has not been recorded in humans in any region of the world and scientists cannot yet determine whether it would have protected an insect from disease from infected cabbage.
Researchers are still trying to determine whether the bacterium may have worked even in the presence of pollen or other organic matter. That makes the analysis of the effect of a pesticide sprayed on a plant highly speculative.
Scientists are also studying the effect a pesticide might have on the plants it’s applied to.
“It’s sort of the old saying: If you kill it, it dies,” said Tom Davis, a University of North Carolina entomology professor who has conducted research with bees. “But this work suggests that if you remove a few species from the plant, we see pretty good recovery.”
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The study of leaf cancer in bees could be applied 더킹카지노to plants, Davis said. Studies have shown that chlorpyrifos, a pesticide also used to kill aphids and termites, can actually destroy plants, including honeybees, in the long term. Researchers will look at whether there is any association between spraying with pesticides and reduced productivity in plants.
In many bee-friendly fields, many plants in the vicinity of the spraying fields are dying, Davis said. “I don’t know what causes it, but you can imagine that if the effect of pesticides on bees is going to be significant and a major concern, then some of these crops will come down pretty hard우리카지노.”
Bees typically have to go out of their burrows to pollinate flowers, but sometimes they will stop to check out flower sites before heading out into the world to feed and care for the plant.
“You have one great opportunity to come in and harvest the flower,” Davis said. “But it’s not what you expect, just like you don’t anticipate 예스카지노having one killer tornado, just because you’re lucky.”
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Keenan reported from Toronto.
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