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 ...

A birth control program for destructive pink bollworms that wreak havoc on cotton crops has virtually eliminated the cotton pests in Arizona. That approach, in combination with planting pest-resistant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After 7 years of planting cotton genetically engineered to kill bollworms, other insects have boomed so much on Chinese farms that their owners are losing money. The new finding, from a study of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...