{"id":582,"date":"2010-08-19T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2010-08-19T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:19:23","slug":"university-licenses-research-for-deer-repellents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"University Licenses Research for Deer Repellents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Deer_NBII_250x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-585\" title=\"Deer_NBII_250x200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Deer_NBII_250x200.jpg\" alt=\"Deer (John J. Mosesso, NBII)\" width=\"250\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Deer_NBII_250x200.jpg 250w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Deer_NBII_250x200-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(John J. Mosesso, NBII)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of Minnesota Duluth agronomist and horticulturist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrri.umn.edu\/staff\/tlevar.asp\">Tom Levar<\/a> has developed a way to protect plants from browsing by deer and mice with a natural hot pepper concentrate delivered to the roots of young plants, making them inedible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repellex.com\/\">Repellex USA<\/a>, a maker of pest repellents in Niles, Michigan has now licensed the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Levar developed a plant formulation of dimethyl sulfoxide that opens pores in a membrane to move different types of protection chemicals through easily accessible plant pores. Repellex developed tablets with that delivery formulation, which are placed near the roots of a plant. When watered, the tablets release a natural hot pepper concentrate known as capsicum that that the plant absorbs, making it inedible.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Summa, president of Repellex, calls Levar&#8217;s discovery &#8220;a game-changing technology&#8221; adding, &#8220;there really is no other systemic deer repellent like this.&#8221; The product has been submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Minnesota Duluth agronomist and horticulturist Tom Levar has developed a way to protect plants from browsing by deer and mice with a natural hot pepper concentrate delivered to the roots of young plants, making them inedible. Repellex USA, a maker of pest repellents in Niles, Michigan has now licensed the technology. Levar developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[84,26],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-p","category-products","tag-licensing","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}