Combining genetically engineered cotton plants that kill caterpillars with the controlled release of sterile moths from airplanes has produced a new and highly successful approach to dramatically ...

BHATINDA - Indian farmers are for the first time abandoning genetically modified cotton after a devastating pest attack ravaged their fields, sowing doubts about the crop technology that had been ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A year filled with trouble is far from over for cotton farmers, because a new pest has officially hit Mississippi cotton fields. The two-spotted leafhopper, also known as the ...

Cotton growers used to be bedeviled by boll weevils. Now, thanks to a successful large-area eradication program, the weevils are no longer a problem in most U.S. cotton fields. But stink bugs have ...

Syngenta's latest innovation knocks out corn rootworm and addresses a host of other yield-robbing pests in a variety of crops ...

Xanthomonas citri subsp. Malvacearum (Xcm) causes bacterial blight of cotton. The disease was rampant in the US during the 1970s, and it has recently re-emerged. Xcm controls its infectivity by ...

KORHOGO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Without pausing to wipe the sweat from their brows, workers in northern Ivory Coast picked cotton by the handful - a crop saved by the use of extra insecticides after ...

Researchers report the effects of land use, transgenic cotton, and weather on cotton pests in China. China is one of the world's largest pesticide consumers, with cotton being the most heavily treated ...

Insect damage to crops is a serious problem for farmers, consumers, and the economy at large. Genetic modification to common crops (like corn) has significantly reduced damage caused by insects that ...

In the fall of 1917, on a cotton farm in Hearne, Texas, entomologist Ivan Shiller documented the first pink bollworm sighting in the US. The insect, named for the characteristic pink color it develops ...