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 ...

If left unchecked, insect pests can devastate crops. To minimize damage and reduce the need for insecticide sprays, crops ...

crop plants have been genetically engineered to produce proteins from the common bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Unlike broad-spectrum insecticides, Bt proteins are active against relatively ...

Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis which is a bacteria derivative ... It is considered an organic insecticide and is very effective for a short period after it is applied. If you grow winter ...

And further, the same bacillus had been met with by Dr. Koch, a year previously, in the case of four patients who had died of cholera in India, and portions of whose intestines had been forwarded ...

He said the larvicides – Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and S ... had lost trust in the program after an organophosphate insecticide locals feared was unsafe, which is legal in Australia ...

“We have submitted for registration in numerous crops and crop groups,” said Elijah Meck, Technical Product Lead for Insecticides at Syngenta. Meck and his colleagues discussed the new product at ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) found that specific insecticides, called ...