Jing Quan Yu and colleagues note that pesticides are essential for sustaining food production for the world’s growing population. Farmers worldwide use about 2.5 million tons of pesticides each year. Scientists have been seeking new ways of minimizing pesticide residues that remain in food … The scientists treated cucumber plants with one type of BR then treated the plants with various pesticides, including chloropyrifos

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