on October 15, 2010
New Study Shows Benefits of Bt Corn to Farmers
A group of agricultural scientists reports in the journal Science that corn that has been genetically engineered to produce insect-killing proteins isolated from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) provides significant economic benefits...
A group of agricultural scientists reports in the journal Science that corn that has been genetically engineered to produce insect-killing proteins isolated from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) provides significant economic benefits even to neighboring farmers who grow non-transgenic varieties of corn. Bt corn suppresses of corn borers, thus…