Ultimately, the exchange of "biocontrol" organisms and scientific information could help boost crop production in both China and the United States.
Richard S. Soper, biocontrol research leader in the department's Agricultural Research Service, said the Beijing laboratory will be a quarantine and research facility for exchanging potential biocontrol organisms between the two countries.
Richard S. Soper, biocontrol research leader in the department's Agricultural Research Service, said the Beijing laboratory will be a quarantine and research facility for exchanging potential biocontrol organisms between the two countries.
The need for such new methods of biocontrol is critical, Pimentel said, because of the costs and hazards associated with pesticides.