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

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a key eco-friendly biocontrol agent, targeting specific pests in agriculture, reducing ...

In 2003, the first genetically engineered corn hybrid trait lethal to corn rootworms and derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) was introduced. Since then, farmers have extensively ...

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 ...

Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) corn is a critical technology for many farmers to protect fields against insects. Refuge helps preserve the benefits of Bt technology, according to Take Action ...

Farmers should be aware that overusing Bt corn can be problematic, according to an analysis of data covering 12 years and 10 ...

Development of transgenic hybrids expressing insecticidal endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) offers a new approach to managing these insects in field corn. Transgenic Bt hybrids with either ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a soil bacterium which produces proteinaceous inclusion bodies during sporulation. The inclusion bodies contain genetically encoded insecticidal proteins with very ...