Roundworm Repository Contributes to Agricultural Wellbeing
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 08:07
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Beltsville, Md., manage a most unusual sort of insurance: 43,000 slides and vials containing all manner of wormlike organisms called nematodes, from the costliest pest of soybeans, Heterodera glycines, to bacteria-feeding species with potential use in biological insect control.