Farmer's behavior in pesticide use: Insights study from smallholder and intensive agricultural farms in Bangladesh.

Since independence and over the years, pesticides have become a dominant feature of Bangladesh agriculture. To protect farmers' health, environment and to improve sustainability of chemical pest control quantitative understanding of farmers' behavior in pesticide use is critical. However, study on the levels of knowledge and awareness of farmers and the practices of pesticide use are often limited.

Plant composition changes in a small-scale community have a large effect on the performance of an economically important grassland pest.

Background: The grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus Bey-Bienko (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) is a dominant and economically important pest that is widely distributed across the Mongolian plateau. This herbivore pest causes major damage to the grassland of the Inner Mongolian steppe in China. The population dynamics of herbivore pests is affected by grassland management practices (e.

Molecular Ecological Basis of Grasshopper () Phenotypic Plasticity under Environmental Selection.

While ecological adaptation in insects can be reflected by plasticity of phenotype, determining the causes and molecular mechanisms for phenotypic plasticity (PP) remains a crucial and still difficult question in ecology, especially where control of insect pests is involved. is one of the most dominant pests in the Inner Mongolia steppe and represents an excellent system to study phenotypic plasticity. To better understand ecological factors affecting grasshopper phenotypic plasticity and its molecular control, we conducted a full transcriptional screening of grasshoppers reared in four different grassland patches in Inner Mongolia.

Determination of traces of molybdenum and lead in foods by x-ray fluorescence spectrometry.

An Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) method using X-ray emitting isotopes in combination with pre-concentration by carbonization was developed to determine the levels of Mo and Pb accumulated in foods. The samples were carbonized at temperatures range of 150-400°C for 15 min to 2 h for powdering. The powder was then quickly formed into a pellet for EDXRF analysis.