Dow Agrosciences LLC

University of Nebraska

Ecolab USA Inc.

Corteva Agriscience LLC

Ronda L Hamm

Kenneth Edwin Narva

Ravi B Shankar

Sukrit Mukhopadhyay

Natalie Christine Giampietro

Sarah E Worden

Phillip J Howard

Thomas G Patterson

Meghan Frey

Andrey N Soukhojak

Nicholas P Storer

Andrew J Pasztor, Jr

William L Winniford

Elane Fishilevich

Neil A Spomer

Kanika Arora

Blair D Siegfried

Bruce A Jacobs

Ana Velez

Chitvan Khajuria

Mary D Evenson

Jeremy Chris P Reyes

Shane L Mangold

Mark William Beach

Mark W Beach

Jeremey Chris P Reyes

A chemical agent useful for controlling pests is disclosed. The agent can be a thiol, such as a cyclic thiol according to Formula I. The agent can be used to react with a targeted biochemical analyte secreted by pests, such as bed bugs, to provide an adduct. The agent can be useful in a pest control device, system, or method for detecting pests, which can involve use of a controller and a sensor cell coated with composition containing the agent. The disclosure also describes the adduct obtained from the agent and the analyte, as well as a composition containing the agent or adduct.

Selective detection of bed bugs

A device, system, and method of controlling pests are disclosed. A pest control device includes a sensor having a sensor cell and a controller. A surface of the sensor cell is coated with an agent that reacts with a targeted biochemical analyte secreted by pests. The controller is coupled to the sensor and is configured to receive sensor data from the sensor cell indicative of a rate of change in sensor mass detected on the surface of the sensor cell, determine whether the rate of change in the sensor mass based on the received sensor data exceeds a predefined threshold rate, and transmit a pest detection alert notification to a server in response to a determination that the rate of change exceeds the predetermined threshold rate.

Selective detection of bed bugs pheromones

This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of hemipteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of hemipteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.

Parental RNAi suppression of chromatin remodeling genes to control coleopteran pests

Parental RNAI suppression of hunchback gene to control hemipteran pests

Parental RNAI suppression of kruppel gene to control hemipteran pests

This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Ronda L Hamm