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 ...

The pink bollworm pest destroyed cotton crops in the US for a century. A collaborative biotechnology program helped stamp it out.

Among various species the American bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera Hubner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) have reached to alarming levels. This insect is globally reckoned to cause severe losses.

Besides, with a view to stopping emergence of pink bollworm moths from the infested seeds/refuge its burning should be made mandatory prior to January in all the ginning factories of Upper Sindh.

But the rest of the world calls it the New World bollworm to differentiate it from its relative the Old World bollworm, arguably a much more ominous threat.

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. Also ...

Farm Distress Pink bollworm pests reach Maharashtra’s Yavatmal early this year, adding to farmers’ distress Multiple measures like pheromone and light traps, multi-cropping and changing ...

Visakhapatnam: The dreaded pest, pink bollworm, that gave nightmares to cotton farmers in the state a decade ago is back in Andhra Pradesh. Farmers in the state’s cotton growing districts like ...

The invasive pink bollworm once devastated the cotton industry in Arizona, but a genetically modified seed helped rid the state of the pest.