According to an article in Investor’s Business Daily, researchers in Canada have developed a tobacco extract that kills pesticide-resistant beetles and blocks growth of two types of bacteria and one fungus. Gardeners have long used tobacco leaves as natural deterrents, (which is probably where tobacco mosaic virus on tomatoes came from), but the process for distilling this extract has been developed for manufacture on a commercial/industrial scale.
Tobacco Extract Kills Pesticide-Resistant Beetles
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