The GM corn contains genes for a protein from a common soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), and is prevalent in more than 30% of the corn grown in the United States. Milkweed plants ...

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is ...

One example of public debate over the use of a genetically modified plant involves the case of Bt corn. Bt corn expresses a protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. Prior to construction ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly half of American farms grow genetically modified crops such as Bt corn or glyphosate-resistant (Roundup-ready) soybeans. Peter Goldsbrough, a plant scientist and expert ...

The dispute traces back to December 2020, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador first announced plans to ban GM corn by the end of 2024. This move immediately raised concerns in the ...

This month, Mexico’s two legislative houses are expected to approve an amendment that will prohibit the cultivation of ...

For more than 20 years, farmers across the globe have been planting crops, including corn, cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium ...

Bt (bacillus thuringiensis) corn is a critical technology for many farmers to protect fields against insects. Refuge helps preserve the benefits of Bt technology, according to Take Action ...

This week, Mexico’s leaders voted to enshrine that concept in the Constitution, declaring native corn “an element of national identity” and banning the planting of genetically modified seeds.