Farmers who grew Bt corn (or cotton) were required to grow non-Bt crops on some of their farm, as a "refuge" for normal insects. That way, the rare, surviving, resistant insects would probably ...

In several different places across the corn belt, the insects have developed resistance to an inserted gene that is supposed to kill them. Now, in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Planting genetically modified, pest-resistant corn can provide a halo effect — offering protection from insects to nearby corn plants that have not been engineered to kill bugs, scientists said ...

MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request.Why this matters:Too much of a specific type of Bt corn — ...

In addition, 86% of U.S. corn acres planted this year contained an insect-resistant Bt trait. Start With ROI The 2025 seed-buying process is already ramping up in many parts of the country.

In a previous paper in 2021, Fritz and her team showed that genomic tools could be used to detect signs that resistance was evolving in corn earworms four years prior to the insect being able to ...

We identified 20 genes that harbor mutations conferring resistance to pest-killing proteins based on previous work with lab-selected strains of corn earworm as well as resistant field populations ...

However, in recent years, the pest has begun to develop a resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis crops. In 2021, European corn borer alone was responsible for the losses of approximately 338,000 ...

of its determination that DP23211 maize (corn) that has been developed using genetic engineering for insect resistance to western corn rootworm and contains the gene that codes for the ...