Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is ...

Planting a refuge helps protect the ability to grow Bt corn long-term and allows farmers to reap the profits season after season. also, it’s the law. If these varieties are not properly managed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly half of American farms grow genetically modified crops such as Bt corn or glyphosate-resistant (Roundup-ready) soybeans. Peter Goldsbrough, a plant scientist and expert ...

One example of public debate over the use of a genetically modified plant involves the case of Bt corn. Bt corn expresses a protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. Prior to construction ...

Corn borer caterpillars bite into the leaves, stems, or kernels of a Bt corn plant, the toxin attacks their digestive tracts, and they die within a few days. Other food plants—squash and papaya, ...

In these states, farmers commonly plant corn continuously ... Since then, farmers have extensively used "Bt corn" hybrids. Subsequently, multiple field studies have reported Bt resistance in ...

Thanks to the ongoing work and diligence by Chris DiFonzo, PhD, Michigan State University, corn growers have access to the updated Handy Bt Trait Table. The table – now in its 22nd year ...

For more than 20 years, farmers across the globe have been planting crops, including corn, cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium ...

For example, Bt-corn is a GMO crop that has a gene added ... When GMO scientists insert new DNA into plant cells, they will often add in an additional gene that makes the modified cells resistant ...