WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Planting Bt corn fence row to fence row could potentially eliminate it from farmers' list of options for pest control, two Purdue University entomologists warn. The corn is ...

“This is the first paper published showing offsite benefits to other host plants for a pest like the corn borer, which is a significant pest for many other crops like green beans and peppers,” study ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Corn farmers could learn a lesson from cotton producers: Planting crops genetically engineered to be insect-resistant works in the short run, but also could increase the number ...

So-called Bt corn, genetically engineered to make its own insecticide, may be losing its distinctive ability to kill pests _ a possible result of careless farming practices that could give rise to ...

Beans farmers in the country are faced with so many challenges, including spraying chemicals about six to 10 times in a planting season due to Pod Borer insect, also called Maruca Vitrata. JULIANA ...

Coauthor Elizabeth D. Earle of Cornell then engineered Bt broccoli for the insects to attack, more as a test vegetable than a commercial breakthrough. The researchers released populations of moths ...