pest resistant
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Pest resistant describes plants, materials, or organisms that naturally withstand damage from insects, rodents, or other pests.
A pest-resistant crop variety requires fewer pesticides.
The term applies to everything from treated lumber to genetically modified seeds: We chose pest-resistant tomatoes for the garden.
- insecticidesAgents that exterminate bugs
- companion plantingGrowing compatible plants together
- cover cropsPlants shielding fallow fields
- fungicidesAgents that destroy molds
- innate immunityInherited pathogen defense system
plant breeding · beneficial insects · repellents · biopesticides · bug spray · genetically modified crops · conservation tillage · crop rotation · organic gardening · herbicides · symbiotic relationships · hardy plants · hardiness
- GMOsgolden rice, GMO soy, GMO seeds, genetic modification, genetically modified
- plant traitsthorny, spiny, evergreen, deciduous, flowering
vulnerability to pest damage
pest resistantsusceptible
Easily influenced or harmed
unprotected · defenseless · weak · exposed
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