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.

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 ...

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 ...

Cotton is the single largest cash crop of Pakistan. In Sindh cultivation of cotton started before the opening of the Sukkur barrage. During the pre-barrage period up to the year 1932 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Pink bollworm caterpillars eat the seeds of cotton plants and damage cotton fibers, and in the 1990s and early 2000s, they were a big problem in Arizona. “The damage was devastating," Ollerton said.

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 ...