With and Without Repellent (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

With and Without Repellent

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A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a biodegradable agent that keeps pests at bay without poisoning them: like mosquito repellent used by bathers in the summer, biotechnologically produced cembratrienol deters voracious insects. If aphids have the choice between wheat seedlings with (right) and without CBT-ol treatment (left), they avoid the treated seedlings.

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Wolfgang Mischko / TUM

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