The smell conversation (BIOSECURITY)
- Author
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited
- Published
- Sun 18 Apr 2021
- Episode Link
- https://www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/article/the-smell-conversation
Insects, animals, plants all use the power of smell to communicate or facilitate reproduction. These smell chemicals are called semiochemicals and today Nicola Sullivan talks to scientist Lloyd Stringer about the use of these chemicals in our battle to protect NZ borders from invasive pests and how we go about discovering what they are and how to reproduce them.
