Sentences with phrase «resistant pink bollworm»
By sequencing the DNA of resistant pink bollworm collected from the field in India — which grows the most Bt cotton of any country in the world — the team found that the insects produce remarkably diverse disrupted variants of cadherin.
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«We wanted to see if field - resistant pink bollworm from India harbored these same changes in the cadherin gene,» Fabrick said.
However, resistant pink bollworm populations have emerged in India, which grows the most Bt cotton of any country in the world.
The emergence of resistant pink bollworm in India provided the researchers an opportunity to test the hypothesis that insects in the field would evolve resistance to Bt toxin by the same genetic mechanism found previously in the lab.