New Study Shows Benefits of Bt Corn to Farmers
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
A group of agricultural scientists reported in today's issue of the journal Science that corn that has been genetically engineered to produce insect-killing proteins isolated from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) provides significant economic benefits even to neighboring farmers who grow non-transgenic varieties of corn.