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Protecting plants efficiently against pests without harming other organ-isms this is the objective of the joint research project ViVe Beet, which is coordinated by the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) and funded by the German Fed-eral Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). Scientists from the JKI Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME and the Institute of Sugar Beet Research (IfZ) are involved in the project. The strategy adopted by the project partners involves the use of customized double-stranded RNA molecules, in-corporated into a suitable formulation. This formulation is then applied through conventional application methods to protect sugar beets from yel-lowing viruses in the future.
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