What do Bt-resistant pink bollworms found in fields in India have to do with U.S. agriculture? A lot. In 2008, the discovery of Bt-resistant pink bollworm in India wasn’t a big surprise. Insects are ...

You can do everything right early in the season to establish a strong cotton crop, but cotton bollworm pressure in July and ...

An EPA proposal to gradually reduce the use of some Bt corn and cotton products in order to combat pest resistance is getting pushback from grower groups and has the crop protection industry concerned ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — While European corn borer once caused substantial yield losses and economic damage for corn growers across the United States, the pest has not been a major cause of concern since Bt ...

A pest insect known as bollworm is the first to evolve resistance in the field to plants modified to produce an insecticide called Bt, according to a new research report. Bt-resistant populations of ...

(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 ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Genetically modified crops containing two insecticidal proteins in a single plant efficiently kill insects. But when crops engineered with just one of those toxins grow nearby, insects ...

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 ...