If the refuges are suitably sized and near enough to the fields of transgenic plants, any resistant insects will be likely to breed with nonresistant insects, diluting the trait out of the pest ...

and the use of chemical insecticides to control the insect vectors. (aphids, whiteflies, plant hoppers, etc. With the advent of gene transfer technologies, genes for disease resistance have been ...

Development of transgenic ... plants. We found no relationship between YieldGard Bt resistance and corn grain aflatoxin concentrations. Yield responses were variable with the prevention of yield loss ...

Several decades later, we are seeking government approval to begin distributing the first blight-tolerant transgenic ... to the regulatory process were published by The American Chestnut Foundation ...

Examples include crops engineered to be resistant to pests ... For example, plants can be engineered to absorb and degrade pollutants from soil or water, a process known as phytoremediation.