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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Malaria mosquitoes
A team of University of Georgia scientists has discovered 35 genes that contain important regulatory peptides in the malaria mosquito. The new information could point toward ways to control the disease, which kills millions of people worldwide each year.
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Avoid Lyme disease
Treat yourself and your clothes before heading out on a hike, and you won't come home with ticks and Lyme disease.
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Lyme disease serious
Mosquitoes and West Nile virus are the hot topics of late, but don't forget to guard against ticks to prevent Lyme disease.
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Spring color
It's time to think ahead in your landscape. If you want spring color as your pansy beds play out, host Walter Reeves has some suggestions on "Gardening in Georgia" Oct. 12 on Georgia Public Television.
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Shockingly effective
Researchers at the University of Georgia are using the same electrostatic charges that make your socks stick to your sweaters to help bees pollinate plants.
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Green Industry 2002.
Anyone who owns or works for a nursery, greenhouse or landscape business can find helpful information in any or all three of the 2002 Green Industry Updates the first week in November.
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Brooks awards
Five University of Georgia faculty received the prestigious D.W. Brooks faculty awards for excellence Oct. 1 in Athens, Ga.
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2002 D.W. Brooks Lecture
Seth Carus, senior research professor in the Center for Counterproliferation Research at the National Defense University, will be the featured speaker at the 2002 D.W. Brooks Lecture Oct. 1 in Athens, Ga.
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Wilted.
Every peanut farmer in Georgia has heard of it. And this year, it's been pretty bad.
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Berry beauty
The bright leaves of fall too soon discolor and drop, leaving bare stems. But then we discover the clusters of jewels still hidden among the plants. The ornamental fruit and berry season is upon us.