Plant pathogens and diseases

Biocontrol is the control of pests by interference with their ecological status, as by introducing a natural enemy or a pathogen into the environment. Biocontrol is a method used for pest control in crop production, it reduces the reliance on using synthetic pesticides, thus not having as much of a negative impact on the environment as pesticides. Using a biocontrol also maintains the economic viability of crop production. The global rate of using biocontrol compared to conventional methods has…

certain areas blow flies are actually more efficient pollinators than honeybees. These areas being the flowers of plants that give off pungent, rotten odours e.g. onion and cabbage. Another thing to consider is that blow fly pollinators have better pollination efficiency in greenhouses compared to most other pollinators. They are easy to rear and maintain, and it helps that their preferred plants are mostly planted in greenhouses. Not only greenhouse crops, but fruit orchards as well are…

salmon farm of 200,000 can generate as much fecal matter, if not more, than a city with a population of 60,000. This fish sewage generated contains the uneaten food, feces and even diseases that usually drift down in concentration to the seafloor below before spreading to the surrounding areas. The diseases and pathogens created in the farms are entirely new to the native fish population of the region and exposure to such illness often spells certain death if contracted. Another problem with…

blood, scabs, toxins and various pathogens that can cause Ecoli and Salmonella. A factory farm is a large-scale industrial operation that houses thousands of animals raised for food and treats them with hormones and antibiotics to prevent disease and maximize their growth and food output. Hormones cause the animals to grow faster, produce more milk and more eggs, which leads to higher profits. Large numbers of animals living in intense confinement means that disease spreads like wildfire.…

Some of those plants are even used in everyday products today (Broad). As our knowledge of gene editing enhanced, more efficient techniques became available. Many available methods require the use of gene-editing nuclease, proteins that allow genes to be edited. Zinc…

Research requires patience, curiosity and most important dedication. Thus, intend to conduct studies in gut health and food spoilage to understand how opportunistic microorganisms cause gut disease in humans and how their metabolism affect the overall internal environment. Completing a doctoral degree in microbiology and immunology will allow me to achieve these studies. Furthermore, I have an interest for studying food spoilage and creating…

Water contamination brings many negative consequences such as, decreased water quality, pathogens which have harmful effects for animals, humans and plants. Since the demand for fast food is so high, then fast food restaurants have to do a lot of packaging and end up overstocking things such as boxes, straws, cups, and plastic if it’s not disposed properly it ends up as…

in the year 2000 (this does not include aquatic animals like fish.) Many animals die before even getting to the slaughterhouse due to disease, injury, suffocation and much more due to today’s factory farming practices. These practices are even harmful for the employees that work there; many people are injured working with the animals or slaughtering them, diseases from the animals spread to the…

environment surrounding them. An article supplied by the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service states this about pesticides. “Pesticides are intentionally designed to be toxic to plant, animal, or microbial pests” (Whitford). The residue left from these weedkillers has had a huge impact on not just certain plants and animals, but the ecosystem as a whole. One type of pesticide, called neonics has greatly impacted a vital contributor to the continuation of the world’s ecosystem: the…

pay, giving workers as little training as possible in order to pay them the least amount they can. Meanwhile, before the disease infested food finds its way to the low paying fast food establishments, factories put unqualified workers to work in production lines to prepare it using dangerous equipment. Essentially, the fast food industry involves nothing but low wages, disease filled take-out bags, and man-killing factories. Entry 1: In Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, he highly emphasizes…