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Looking for investors for a new safe pesticide.
Posted by: Dalmo Accorsini on 6/24/2008 1:28:09 PM
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Nicoshield
Nicotine That Keeps Leaf-Loving Herbivores away.

Sooner or later, a gardener looking for “nontoxic” ways to control the inevitable attack on a favorite plant will discover the nicotine remedy. Caterpillars, aphids, and a diverse array of insects predisposed to devouring plants will soon abandon your vegetables and flowers in search of less disagreeable forage.

Plants rely on an arsenal of chemical metabolites to fend off predators. Many of these chemicals harbor anti-herbivore properties. With plant and plant-eater engaged in an ever-escalating battle of evolutionary one-upmanship and with plants capable of producing an array of defensive responses, teasing out the predator-resistant effects of individual plant metabolites has proved challenging.

To isolate the resistance effects of nicotine from possible confounding factors, we use the Nicotiana attenuata tobacco plant. Focusing on an enzyme, called putrescine methyl transferase (PMT), central to nicotine biosynthesis, we used two techniques that interfere with PMT production by silencing the gene, pmt, that encodes the enzyme. One of the techniques (which adds genetic sequences called “inverted repeats” to gene fragments) proved far more effective at silencing pmt, producing 29 out of 34 plant lines with only 3%–4% of normal nicotine levels.

With suitably nicotine-deprived plants, the results clearly show that nicotine protects tobacco plants in their native habitat, tobacco-chewing insects “prefer low nicotine diets.” Removing nicotine from the equation reveals the relentless pressure that plants face from herbivores. Without such defenses, plants would be unceremoniously eliminated posthaste, leaving a world without greenery, not to mention oxygen.

The Natural pesticide comes in a aqueous solution of tobacco extracts and bee propolis mixture which is able to eliminate a wide variety of insects. The Natural pesticide is completely biodegradable and non-toxic to pets and humans at the usage concentration required. Nicoshield is able to prevent the introduction of high levels of pesticides into the environment by remaining effective over a period of time, thereby avoiding the need for numerous applications.

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