[Ngo-sanrm] Worm Now Thrives in GMO Corn Designed to Kill It, Study Says

Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Working Group ngo-sanrm at ngocentre.org.vn
Wed Mar 19 07:10:29 GMT 2014


http://www.newsweek.com/worm-now-thrives-gmo-corn-designed-kill-it-study-says-232276


One of industrial agriculture’s biggest GMO crops may have just backfired. 
Scientists have confirmed that corn-destroying rootworms have evolved to be resistant to the Bt corn engineered to kill them. 
Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis, the name of the genetically modified corn’s “donor” organism. Bacillus 
thuringiensis is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces 
protein crystals that bind to certain receptors in the rootworm’s 
intestine, killing it. For years, farmers have planted Bt corn as an 
alternative to spraying insecticides. Bt corn accounted for three-quarters of all corn planting in 2013. That may have to change.

 
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Chuck Palazzo
Agent Orange Action Group
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Chapter 160, Hoa Binh, Veterans For Peace
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