Spanish scientists patent a method to manufacture pesticides with genetic material

One of the main challenges of agriculture in the 21st century is to create products so that crops can resist pests and pathogens in a “natural” way, without leaving toxic residues in food, without affecting the health of pollinating insects, such as bees, and without contaminating the air, rivers and land, he assures by phone José Antonio Darós, researcher at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, a joint center of the CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

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