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• Multilingual ENDURE IC: read the leaflets
  

  You can now read about ENDURE’s Information Centre - the central point of reference for extending expert knowledge, recommendations and advice for extension services, advisers and researchers concerning all aspects of Integrated Pest Management - in a range of European languages.

• Maize: Tackling Fusarium and mycotoxins
  

  The third and final guide from ENDURE’s maize case study team has now been published, offering advisers and extension services useful information about preventing ear rots caused by Fusarium species and mycotoxin contamination.

• The role of advisers in pomefruit production
  

  There are many paradoxes when it comes to fruit, and apples and pears in particular. On the one hand, we know eating fruit is good for us, but on the other, growing that perfect-looking fruit is likely to have relied on numerous chemical treatments, even though more-or-less viable non-chemical alternatives may exist.

• Assessing sustainability of new strategies
  

  An interesting insight into the work of ENDURE’s research teams addressing multicriteria assessment of crop protection methods and cropping systems and the Orchard System Case Study will be presented at July’s International Farming Systems Association Symposium in Vienna, Austria.

• ENDURE Deliverables online: 72 reports
  

  ENDURE produces a series of Deliverables to chart progress in its various activities. These reports cover the complete range of the Network’s work packages and are now available through this website.

• New training leaflet: Logarithmic spraying
  

  Imagine you are a farmer and are told you are using more pesticide than necessary to control a pest. Would this advice be enough to change your approach? Maybe not. But what if an adviser could show you, clearly and scientifically, exactly what dose needs to be applied to achieve an acceptable level of control while saving you money on your pesticide bill?

• Apply now for Agrobiodiversity PhD Programme
  

  One of ENDURE’s two Italian partners, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (SSSUP), is about to launch the seventh year of its International Doctoral Programme in Agrobiodiversity, which includes six scholarships to motivated students from any country, including a minimum of four scholarships granted to students from developing countries.

• Catch up with maize case study
  

  The latest edition of the Journal of Applied Entomology is devoted to maize pests, featuring a detailed overview of ENDURE’s maize case study among 12 papers presented by the International Working Group on Ostrinia and other Maize Pests (IWGO). IWGO, a Global - International Organisation of Biological Control (IOBC) Working Group created in 1968, selected the papers from the 57 oral and 31 poster presentations at its 2009 conference in Germany.

• ENDURE 2010 Summer School: Apply now!
  

  PhD students can now apply for the third ENDURE Summer School, which will be based on the theme of ‘New and emerging agricultural pests, diseases and weeds’ and take place at its usual location, the SIAF International School of Advanced Education in the heart of Italy’s Tuscany region.

• In depth: Biological controls
  

  Despite a history stretching back more than a century, biological control methods are a long way short of being a mainstream feature of modern agriculture. To better understand the role biological controls can play in crop protection, alongside the factors that influence their success or failure, and the economics of a sector that faces challenges rather different to those of the chemical industry, one ENDURE research team has just completed a major 234-page report.