The phrase "pink bollworm" refers to a type of insect that harms cotton plants. It is called pink bollworm because it has pinkish-colored larvae. Full definition
Sequencing the DNA of resistant pink bollworm collected from the field in India, the team found that the insects produce remarkably diverse disrupted variants of cadherin. (sciencedaily.com)
A caterpillar of pink bollworm, a global pest that evolved resistance to Bt cotton in India but the not in the U.S., emerges after devouring a boll of cotton. (sciencedaily.com)
The researchers learned that the astonishing diversity of cadherin in pink bollworm from India is caused by alternative splicing, a novel mechanism of resistance that allows a single DNA sequence to code for many variants of a protein. (sciencedaily.com)