Are camouflaged seeds less attacked by wild birds? Sementes camufladas são menos atacadas por aves silvestres?
Wheat, corn and rice crops in Brazil use seeds treated with systemic insecticide/nematicide carbofuran, mixed to rhodamine B red dye. Carbofuran is toxic and rhodamine B is attractive to wild birds that eat up these seeds, resulting in notable mortality during planting. A field experiment was perfor...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Scientia Agricola |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162010000200007 |