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• Shedding light on pomefruit research
  

  Nobody likes wormy apples and, according to the supermarkets at least, blemished apples and pears simply do not sell, which means some of our favourite fruits are subject to significant doses of pesticides.

• A worldwide problem: whiteflies
  

  ENDURE’s tomato case study group has been studying the distribution of key pests affecting Europe’s tomato growers

• Tackling wheat and apple pests
  

  Pesticides are high on the political agenda, but reducing their use across Europe is difficult when we do not know who uses what plant protection products against which pests.

• NEW! Events guide calendar
  

  To make it easier to plan your visits to conferences, workshops and seminars dealing with crop protection, we have now grouped them into an easy to use calendar format.

• Successful science writing goes online
  

  Two members of ENDURE's Communications Team have written a short guide to writing successful science stories for agricultural scientists.

• Interview: Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh
  

  To coincide with November's Paris seminar, Sustainable Agriculture and Pesticides: What is at stake? What are the options? (see news), ENDURE interviewed Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh (pictured below right), from Germany's Julius Kuehn Institute, and leader of the ENDURE SA4.5 group, which is providing scientific support to policy makers.

• New guides now available
  

  The range of guides available for advisers and extension services is expanding, with the addition of one guide examining integrated weed management for maize and another focusing on using cultivar resistance for reducing fungicide input for wheat.

• Conference: news and photos online!
  

  If you could not make it to Diversifying Crop Protection, ENDURE's first international conference, or were there and want a reminder of what happened, more news and photos are now online.

• Sign up for electronic newsletter
  

  ENDURE will shortly be launching an electronic newsletter

• Conference abstracts online!
  

  Abstracts for all 128 presentations, both oral and poster sessions, for ENDURE's International Conference can now be consulted online.