The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to exempt from its regulation some biotech crops that are genetically engineered to be toxic to damaging insects and other plant pests. The agency’s ...

A study of agricultural data from 2011 to 2016 in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota suggests that damage to transgenic corn from the western corn rootworm, which has evolved resistance to the insecticidal ...

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 ...

Farmers have been trying to minimize the impacts of crop pests for thousands of years. Insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses can cause massive destruction of important crops, and this ...

Insect pests can destroy crops if they are not controlled. To limit damage and lessen the need for insecticide sprays, crops have been genetically modified to produce bacterial proteins that kill ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 21, 2023) Into the annals of “entropic methods of agricultural pest control” arrives recent research showing that pests are, unsurprisingly, developing resistance to a ...

Maize is a staple food crop for many subsistence farmers. Destructive pests have emerged causing crop losses.The cheering news is that scientists have developed disease-resistant varieties of maize.

Some of the most popular products of biotechnology — corn and cotton plants that have been genetically modified to fend off insects — are no longer offering the same protection from those bugs.

Manitoba producers are being encouraged to stay sharp in the field this growing season as new insect concerns, resistant weeds, and shifting local conditions continue to complicate crop protection ...

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If left unchecked, insect pests can devastate crops. To minimize damage and reduce the need for insecticide sprays, crops have been genetically engineered to produce bacterial proteins that kill key ...