“Our system provides an extremely useful and rapid tool to help in the search for new, more environmentally acceptable plant protection products”

Scientists from the James Hutton Institute have developed a screening system which uses transparent soil technology to help fight nematodes - microscopic worms that are harmful to plants, damaging about 10% of susceptible crops and causing hundreds of billions of pounds of losses worldwide in a year.

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