Time-delayed insecticide
Time-delayed insecticide crystals could revolutionise pest management in agriculture following a deal between researchers and Italian chemical company Endura.
Time-delayed insecticide ‘crystals’ could revolutionise pest management in agriculture following a deal between researchers from Rothamsted Research, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSWDPI) in Australia and the Italian chemical company Endura.
The agreement will allow Endura to commercialise technology that involves the encapsulation of insecticide into tiny crystals.
The technology has proved nearly 100 per cent effective in some insecticide-resistance hot-spots around the world.
Once released onto the market, the technology will allow farmers to destroy pests that are currently devastating crops such as potatoes, sugar beet and cotton.
The formal issuing of a licence to Endura is a result of ten years of research by Dr Graham Moores from Rothamsted Research and Dr Robin Gunning from NSWDPI, who together developed the new encapsulation technology.
A major problem in pest control is the propensity for insects to mutate and become resistant to pesticides by developing enzymes that block insecticides and stop them from working.
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