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Examples
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He has knocked out the ageing gene in Nematode worm C.elegans and has increased it lifespan by over 5 times its normal longetivity.
Ridley Scott Describes the Timeline of His Alien Prequel | /Film 2009
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Beetle vs. Nematode I ignored it when they skeletonized the leaves of my semidwarf plum tree.
War of the Roses: Steve Stecklow 2008
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"Nematode worms, he says, account for four of every five animals living on Earth -- and are so abundant that if the planet's surface vanished, its" ghostly outline "could still be made out in the biomass of nematodes, almost all of species unknown."
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Nematode infection may reduce rhizobial colonization and, hence, nitrogen fixation.
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Nematode problems in the garden can be managed using a number of low-cost techniques that help keep nematodes out of uninfected areas, and when present, keep their numbers in both soil and plants low enough that a sufficient harvest is still produced.
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Nematode pests must feed on plants to survive, so nematodes in infested beds or areas of the garden can be starved out by fallowing for a year or two.
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The tissues of the monkey also serve as the habitat for a Nematode worm parasitic in cattle (_Oesophagostoma inflatum_) resembling the Anchylostomum, and this parasite frequently bores through the intestinal wall, and provokes the formation of small cysts in the immediately adjacent mesentery.
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Nematode control hasn't changed that much, with Telone and Temik.
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Nematode parasites pose the greatest current threat to global agricultural productivity.
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Forage Plant Wards off Ruminant Gastrointestinal Nematode help foraging ruminants ward off damaging gastrointestinal nematodes that can cause illness and death,
WN.com - Articles related to Genetically engineered pigs a step closer to dinner plate 2010
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