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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Farms, Agricultural Production Systems
  2. disease and pest management
  3. pest management
  4. pest control
  5. insect control
  6. sterile insect technique

Preferred term

sterile insect technique

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information Method of insect control, utilizing sterilizing doses of radiation, in which sterile insects (usually males) are mass-released into the environment to compete with wild populations for mates.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • SIT (sterile insect technique)
  • sterile insect release
  • sterile male release
  • sterile release

In other languages

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/47372

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