They got their bug-resistant features from a kind of bacteria that lives in the soil, called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, which is poisonous to the larval stage of some major insect pests ...

Beneficial insects, nematodes not harmed by genetically modified, insect-resistant crops, studies show. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 02 ...

There is some evidence that GE insect-resistant crops have had benefits to human health by reducing insecticide poisonings. In addition, several GE crops are in development that are designed to ...

•The insect resistant (IR) technology used in cotton and corn has consistently delivered yield gains from reduced pest damage. The average yield gains over the 1996-2014 period across all users ...

There are other cases — in the Chinese struggle with the cotton bollworm, for instance — where insect-resistant crops have not even led to a 25 percent drop in insecticides.

David Fischhoff is recognized as a leading scientist in the development and commercialization of crops that deter plant-destroying insects. He is an inventor on several patents in that field. Four ...

Unlike insect-resistant crops, which opened the door to alternative forms of pest management, herbicide-tolerant crops narrowed weed control options to a single obvious solution.

NEW YORK -- An affiliate of Dow Chemical Co.'s AgroSciences unit on Tuesday was granted U.S. patent rights to a protein in plants that enables crops to protect themselves from insects. The patent ...

Scientists have already warned that climate change likely will impact the food we grow. From rising global temperatures to more frequent “extreme” weather events like droughts and floods ...

Weeds are a massive problem for farmers, says Paul Neve at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. “We lose more crop yield to weeds than we do to insect pests and pathogens.” Around the ...