image: Illinois transgenic corn field devastated by resistant western corn rootworm larvae. view more
Credit: Image credit: Joe Spencer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL).
A study of agricultural data from 2011 to 2016 in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota suggests that damage to transgenic corn from the western corn rootworm, which has evolved resistance to the insecticidal proteins produced by the genetically engineered crop, can be mitigated through crop rotation and by diversifying the varieties of transgenic corn planted.
Article #20-03604: "Crop rotation mitigates impacts of corn rootworm resistance to transgenic Bt corn," by Yves Carrière et al.
MEDIA CONTACT: Yves Carrière, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; e-mail: ycarrier@ag.arizona.edu
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Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences