Transgenic cotton and sterile insect releases synergize eradication of pink bollworm a century after it invaded the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2021; 118 (1 ...

He was a member of the advisory committee that provided scientific advice about eradication and has researched the pink bollworm for more than two decades. The pink bollworm as an adult is a small ...

An American pink bollworm expert says that it is impossible to tackle the menace with the current two Bt toxins being used in the country. “It has gone out of control. It’s too late.

Some farmers sprayed as often as 25 times a year without reaching control. In 1990, pink bollworm cost cotton growers $48 million in Arizona alone. A coordinated and multitactical list of areawide ...

"Moreover, the harsh insecticides used to control pink bollworm resulted in a host of other insect pests becoming more serious problems," Dennehy said. Everything changed in 1996, he said ...

which would not have been logistically practical unless the pink bollworm population hadn't already been diminished. "By itself, the Bt crop is generally not going to allow eradication ...

From the Agriculture Department last week came an alarming note. The pink bollworm, “the most threatening insect pest of American cotton,” is doing more damage “to the 1952 cotton crop ...

During a large-scale, four-year field deployment of this strategy in Arizona, resistance of pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) to Bt cotton did not increase. A multitactic eradication ...

Genetically engineered cotton and classical pest control tactics combined to rid the United States and Northern Mexico of a devastating pest, according to a new study by Agricultural Research ...

Control strategy: Pink bollworm is a mono-host pest and hence, can be easily managed provided all necessary precautions are taken. Chemical control is difficult because the insect spends most of ...

Patiala: Following the reports of pink bollworm attack on crops in Punjab ... level (ETL), indicating that the situation is “under control”. Patiala’s chief agriculture officer Jaswinder ...