The Root of the Rootworm Problem: What a Tiny Beetle Can Tell Us About Our Broken Agricultural…
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By: Doug Gurian-Sherman, Senior Scientist and Director of Sustainable Agriculture The re-emergence of the corn rootworm due to…
By: Doug Gurian-Sherman, Senior Scientist and Director of Sustainable Agriculture The re-emergence of the corn rootworm due to…
Evolutionary plant breeding, an inexpensive, highly dynamic strategy to adapt crops to both abiotic and biotic stresses and to…
Instead, it's happening all around us, all the time. More »
Over a decade ago, a biotechnology company designed corn plants that poison certain pests in an effort to lower use of…
A pest evolved to eat the biotech corn that had been engineered to kill it
Editor's note: This is a guest post by geneticist and author Belinda Martineau, who was a principal scientist at Calgene Inc.…
Corn rootworms in the US may have developed resistance to the insecticide in a genetically modified crop
Corn rootworms in the US may have developed resistance to the insecticide in a genetically modified crop
Die Heilsversprechen von Konzernen wie Monsanto lösen sich auf: Transgener Bt-Mais hilft kaum noch gegen Schädlinge. Schuld ist…
Science News reported 60-plus years ago how indiscriminate use of DDT ruined that chemical's value: Now history seems to be…
Ancient monster eruption found, plus balancing sea ice, Bt-resistant beetles and more in this week’s news