Researchers used genomics to investigate the genetic changes causing resistance to transgenic crops in field populations of the corn earworm, also known as cotton bollworm or Helicoverpa zea. They ...

Insect pests can destroy crops if they are not controlled. Crops that produce bacterial proteins that kill important pests ...

If left unchecked, insect pests can devastate crops. To minimize damage and reduce the need for insecticide sprays, crops ...

A new tool in the never-ending battle with pests To gain protection from the corn earworm and some other major caterpillar and beetle pests, crop plants have been genetically engineered to produce ...

A ban on genetically modified corn in Mexico could disproportionately affect the nation's lower-income consumers and have a negative impact on U.S. sale of corn, 90 percent of which is genetically ...

Most genetically modified corn is created to resist insect pests or tolerate herbicides. Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, corn is a genetically modified corn that produces proteins that are toxic to ...

And further, the same bacillus had been met with by Dr. Koch, a year previously, in the case of four patients who had died of cholera in India, and portions of whose intestines had been forwarded ...

CHICAGO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are harvesting two of the largest corn and soybean crops in history at the fastest pace in years, straining their physical capabilities and their grain ...

The best way to combat corn borers is to use a Bacillus thuringiensis spray, a natural bacteria that stops borers from feeding. Cutworms are larvae from moths in the Noctuidae family with a thick, ...