date:Jul 17, 2018
rldwide yields ($157 billion dollars) are lost due to nematodes, meaning these unseen little pests stand as one of the biggest threats to the sustainability of agriculture.
Chemical solutions
In industrial agriculture, the most common solution up to now has been using chemical pesticides. Indeed, all the big chemical players manufacture such nematicides, including Monsanto, Bayer, BASF and Dow, with nematicides in three categories: organophosphates, carbamates and bio-nematicides.
However, the