Pea and bean weevil notching activity likely to increase
PEA and bean weevil notching is present on winter bean plants and activity is likely to increase as temperatures rise.
Notch, a protein known to govern the determination of cell differentiation into different kinds of tissues in embryos, plays a critical role in bone formation and strength later in life, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the journal Nature Medicine.