Handy Bt Trait Table Updated and Available Now Corn growers can use this free tool to understand which hybrids have which traits, as well as evaluate insect problems and herbicide needs in-season.

Ed Bynum, Texas AgriLife Extension entomologist, cautions cotton growers in regions with large corn acreage to be on the lookout for bollworms building resistance to the Bt traits found in ...

There's no evidence that the European corn borer has evolved resistance to the Bt toxin. The same goes for some insects that feed on cotton, such as the pink bollworm — at least in the United ...

Bt crops brought a two-fold benefit: Cotton and corn farmers didn't need to use so many chemicals to control the bollworm and related pests after they were released, starting in 1996.

Corn earworm (also known as cotton bollworm) caterpillars feeding on BT corn which expresses BT proteins found in commercial field corn and cotton.

Combinations of Bt traits need to both be effective for the approach to work, Gassmann said. Increasing the typical 5% level of non-Bt “refuges” in Bt corn fields, and considering Bt technology as ...

Varieties of cotton, corn, and potatoes were also grown for the first time in 1996 and since then, there has been a quantum jump in that area under the Bt.

Long-term analysis shows GM cotton no match for insects in India Genetically modified (GM) Bt cotton produces its own insecticide. The seeds were introduced in India in 2002 and today account for ...

The Karnataka Biodiversity Board submitted a letter and memorandum to the state government, seeking denial of permission for cultivation of BT cotton and BT corn.

Area-wide adoption of insect protected Bt corn and Bt cotton crops has led to significant reductions in certain target pest populations. Here we examine the potential for pyramided corn ...

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology's effectiveness and some farmers' profits.

Varieties of cotton, corn, and potatoes were also grown for the first time in 1996 and since then, there has been a quantum jump in that area under the Bt.