An entomologist at Purdue University says overreliance on corn-rootworm resistant traits has reduced profitability for some farmers. Christian Krupke says states in the Eastern Corn Belt have used the ...

The title of the Science article, "Too much of a good thing: lessons from compromised rootworm Bt maize in the US Corn Belt," captures the study's main thrust, said Aaron Gassmann, professor of ...

Insights from disabling Bt receptors in the Asian corn borer To kill insect pests, Bt proteins must be ingested and bind to specific receptors in the lining of the gut. Because humans and other ...

which are used widely in Bt corn that targets corn borers and other lepidopteran pests. The researchers discovered that Cry1Ab kills the caterpillars via two different toxic pathways. One pathway ...

The study, published in Science, shows rootworms are increasingly resistant to the built-in protection of corn that is genetically engineered to produce insecticidal proteins derived from a bacterium ...

This changed in 2018 when the borer’s resurgence was first discovered in Nova Scotia in 2018. Farmers noticed a resistance to Cry1F Bt corn – the best treatment for ECB. Subsequent discoveries of ...

Growing corn is exciting to watch as it goes from a small, humble seedling to a tall and sturdy plant and eventually produces cobs of corn. However, counting on your harvest in advance could lead ...

The American Sphere leads with 48.7% of global copper output over the past five years, followed by the Chinese Sphere at 29.9%. The Russian Sphere and the Coalition of the Willing each account for ...

OpenAI's ChatGPT helps you create infographics without having to learn how to use any specialised software. With the new capabilities of GPT-40, users can simply ask ChatGPT to create an ...

Languages: English and Spanish. You can contact her via email: [email protected] A Redditor left a corn chip out overnight, and the internet is reeling from the amount of oil that seeped out ...