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 ...

Brazil is the world's largest producer of soybeans and one of the reasons is the incorporation of bio-inputs, microorganisms ...

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 ...

An analysis of data covering 12 years and 10 U.S. Corn Belt states reveals that farmers suffer economic loss from the overuse of genetically engineered corn designed to combat rootworm pests.

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).

Farmers in dozens of countries have embraced crops genetically engineered to produce proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt ... and cadherin in caterpillars of the Asian corn borer (Ostrinia ...

For more than 20 years, farmers across the globe have been planting crops, including corn, cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium ...

The study, recently 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 ...

DOI: 10.1126/science.adm7634 Aaron J. Gassmann et al, Sequential evolution of resistance by western corn rootworm to multiple Bacillus thuringiensis traits in transgenic maize, Proceedings of the ...