Varroa Mite Research Needs YOU!

摘要

A SCIENTIFIC team of Scots have won 250,000 to take self-destructing Varroa mite research into the field, and they are calling on SBA members to help them.Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and the National Bee Unit, part of the Food and Environment Research Agency, have worked out how to 'knock down' genes in the parasitic mite causing it to die. So far the work has only been done in the lab butnow the team can take their work a step closer towards developing a product that could help beekeepers thanks to the funding from Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Vita (Europe) Ltd.