Discovering soybean plants resistant to aphids and a new aphid

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

This year farmers in the Midwest are growing a new variety of soybeans developed by University of Illinois researchers that has resistance to soybean aphids. However, in addition to the resistant plants, U of I researchers also discovered a new soybean aphid which is not controlled by this resistance.

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