Future food crops will need to make and deliver their own natural pest controls, suggested internationally acclaimed chemist John A. Pickett during his 2017 Agricultural Research Service Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecture. More
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- Getting “Ticked Off” with Ticks
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- ARS Scientist’s Life-Saving Work Fighting Parasite Earns Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal Recognition
- Earthworms Work Wonders for Soils
- The Benefits of Studying a Domestic Goat with an Interesting History
- Using the World's Oldest Apple Trees to Supply New Ones
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