Does Bt corn or Bt cotton only kill specific pests that damage the crop ... 22 caliber blank cartridges to shoot the genes into the cells, giving the technique the label "gene gun." Once the genetic ...

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 ...