近日，基因组所农业昆虫基因组学创新团队在《通讯生物学（Communications Biology）》上发表题为“Transcriptional regulation and overexpression of GST cluster enhances pesticide resistance in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera ...

Bollworm is susceptible to an insecticidal toxin made by the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, and China approved the commercial growth of cotton plants modified to produce this toxin in 1997.

A survey of pink bollworm in Arizona, where Bt cotton makes up more than half of the cotton grown, shows that genes for Bt resistance have not become more common since 1997.

The pink bollworm, which is native to Asia, is thought to have hitched a ride into the US via seeds coming from Mexico, and into Mexico via seeds imported from Egypt around 1911. 1 The US government ...

Larvae of the cotton bollworm are dreaded pests all over the world. They have a very wide host range: About 200 different plant species are known as potential food for the voracious insect. The ...

Old World bollworm could pose serious threat to more than cotton and corn. by Steve Byrns, Texas A&M University. A New World corn earworm also known as the cotton bollworm, dines on an ear of ...

The old world bollworm (OWB) is a pest that causes billions in damages to agriculture around the world annually, and it isn't a question of if it will come to the U.S. mainland but when.

Fighting American bollworm. Published April 29, 2002 . 0. Join our Whatsapp channel. COTTON being the leading cash crop substantially contributes to food, textile industry and foreign exchange ...

Pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella-Saunders) is an important pest of cotton throughout the world, though it is more serious in Asia and Africa than in America.

Pink bollworm has been cited in thousands of hectares of cotton crop in Gun-tur and some parts of Anantapur. The state government has also decided to issue notices to the seed companies as per ...

There were extensive crop losses due to the pink bollworm and this year, the cotton area has reduced to between 3.6 million and 3.8 mha compared to 4.2 mha in 2017-18 in Maharashtra, according to ...

ADILABAD: Pink bollworm has resurfaced much earlier this year and has started affecting the cotton plants in this Kharif season in old Adilabad. The pink bollworm damages the cotton balls over a ...