Old corn pest returns with new threat

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February 25, 2024

Source: Grainews.ca

Bt corn hybrids have been the story of success in transgenic innovation, a gold standard of biotech pest management, first with European corn borer (ECB) and then corn rootworm (CRW). Now comes a case from Truro, N.S., where a resistant corn borer population confirmed in 2018 also appears resistant to another protein. Find out more the resistance from this Grainews.ca article.

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