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

Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) corn is a critical technology for many farmers to protect fields against insects. Refuge helps preserve the benefits of Bt technology, according to Take Action ...

Bacillus thuringiensis is a species of bacteria that ... recent research suggests there has been an areawide suppression of European corn borer populations (Hutchison et al. 2010).

perennially cause leaf and ear damage to corn in the southeastern USA. Development of transgenic hybrids expressing insecticidal endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) offers a new approach to ...

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 ...

The GM corn contains genes for a protein from a common soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), and is prevalent in more than 30% of the corn grown in the United States. Milkweed plants ...

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

"The corn earworm is one the world's most challenging ... engineered to produce proteins from the common bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Unlike broad-spectrum insecticides, Bt proteins ...