Using smell to limit insect colonisation and crop damage

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Driving aphids away with smells is the latest attempt to save the European sugar beet industry.

Ever since French sugar beet growers lost about 30% of their crop in 2020 due to a terrible infestation of Beet Yellow Virus (BYV), the €20m Consolidated National Research and Innovation Plan has searched for solutions to control aphids and sugar beet yellows.