MADISON, WI, FEBRUARY 11, 2008 -- Transgenic cotton cultivars were planted on almost 93% of U.S. cotton acres in 2007. Transgenic cultivars with pest-managing traits are dual-purpose products. The ...

Transgenic cotton can boost population of beneficial pest-controlling insects in its own farm as well as nearby farms, according to a Chinese research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The ...

From 2004 through 2005, plots of experimental transgenic cotton lines containing the vegetative insecticidal protein, Vip3A; δ-endotoxin, Cry1Ab; and both Vip3A and Cry1Ab were evaluated for efficacy ...

Arizona farmers who grow genetically modified cotton can skip some of their usual insecticide spraying. Those crops have the same impact on crawling insects and the same yield as unmodified cotton ...

During the past 12000 years agricultural systems have transitioned from natural habitats to conventional agricultural regions and recently to large areas of genetically engineered (GE) croplands. This ...

Ten thousand hectares of unauthorized transgenic cotton have been found in India. The news has angered firms waiting to grow genetically modified (GM) crops in the country, and raises serious ...

A newly developed fertilizer system will provide nutrition to engineered cotton crops worldwide and a deadly dose to weeds that are increasingly herbicide resistant, according to a new study. The new ...

Wily weeds can develop resistance to herbicides, allowing them to compete with genetically modified crops designed to tolerate weed-killing chemicals. Now, a team is proposing another approach to ...

In case we need more convincing that the Anthropocene is upon us, take a look at how we've reshaped the world with agriculture (see EcoCenter: The Land). As Diana Parsell writes, about 35 percent of ...

The three companies that produce a majority of U.S. cottonseed recently announced their new varieties for the 2015 crop season. Monsanto Company (Deltapine), Bayer CropScience (FiberMax and Stoneville ...

Mast Farms LLC is using Quantix Mapper and Pix4Dfields to create variable rates for Pix application on their cotton farm. Cotton is one of the most important crops grown in the United States and a ...