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The difference in handwriting styles has always interested me, and one of the first things I did when I moved to Germany was to try to write in Sutterlin everyone thought it looked like their grandmother's writing.
German and American Handwriting C N Heidelberg 2009
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"The response I'm hearing indicates we can't get this out soon enough," Sutterlin said of his company's powdery product, poised to enter field trials after having successfully passed tests in UA laboratories.
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"We take the pectin and chemically modify it," Sutterlin says.
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And Sutterlin says members of his company's initial target market, apple growers, are primed and ready for relief from the winged insects, whose larva sometimes appears as unwanted worm-like additions within apples.
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While using synthetic pheromones to reduce insect populations is, in itself, not new, the standard means of delivering pheromone is quickly falling out of favor, Sutterlin says, because of environmental concerns, in some cases, and the labor-intensive steps necessary to use them, in others.
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"We're using microencapsulated pheromone," said Sutterlin, the company's founder and CEO.
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Ben Miller, a senior management major, and a board of advisers including representatives from both UA and the University of Missouri, believes its initial niche lies with organic apple growers, Sutterlin said.
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UA's Bama Technology Incubator, of which Sutterlin is a part, nurtures high-growth, high-tech start-up businesses into potentially profitable industry leaders.
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Also, unlike traditional insecticides, this technique doesn't randomly kill harmless or commercially helpful insects and poses no environmental risks, Sutterlin said.
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These have even been banned, Sutterlin says, in California.
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