Offering farmers more seed choices also would help reduce Bt overuse, researchers said. Bt traits targeting insect pests such ...

New research shows how two notorious pests, western and northern corn rootworms, survive cold winters and return the following year to wreak havoc on corn yields. The study is published in Current ...

Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scientist Ana Maria Vélez is pioneering a genetic treatment to contain western corn rootworm. The research seeks to contain agricultural pests by targeting ...

Entomologist documented greater rootworm pest pressure in the western Corn Belt states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In these states ...

This product will be our leading corn rootworm trait offer in our portfolio ... above-and below-ground pests including corn earworm, western bean cutworm and CRW. The company expects to launch ...

This month, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the first plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) of its kind based on RNA interference (RNAi) technology, engineered to target western ...

Durastak, Syngenta’s latest innovative corn trait stack for corn rootworm protection, has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and will be available in hybrids from both the ...

Several years ago, Krupke noticed a difference between corn rootworm reports in the eastern and western Corn Belt states. “We were all in different regions of the country, yet doing much the ...