Researchers identify how insects resist Bt pesticides
Story Date: 9/22/2011

Source:  FARM INDUSTRY NEWS, 9/20/11


Cornell University researchers have identified how cabbage looper caterpillars in the field develop resistance to the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which naturally occurs in the soil and on plants and has been developed into a successful and widely used biological insecticide.

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