Word: aphid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANIMATORS 35 WEIRDEST CASTING Woody Allen as a worker ant FAST-FOOD TIE-INS None, because the studio rushed the movie out to beat A Bug's Life PROTESTS SPARKED University entomologists fault the depiction of the ant colony and life-style GROWNUPS' BONUS The ants drink from an aphid's anus...
...state. As a plant breeder at CIMMYT, the internationally funded agricultural research station in El Batan, Mexico, he spends his days in silent battle with threats to the world's wheat crop. Recently Skovmand discovered a rare strain of wheat from eastern Turkey that is resistant to the Russian aphid, an invader that has so far cost American farmers $300 million. By using the Turkish strain to develop hearty new hybrid wheats, CIMMYT breeders may help growers outwit the aphid...