Sentence examples for a common pest from inspiring English sources

The corn is engineered to contain a gene that is lethal to a common pest.

The StarLink corn is engineered to produce a protein toxic to a common pest, the corn borer.

In Southeast Asia the cocoa pod borer, the larva of mosquito-like insect, is a common pest.

The StarLink corn is engineered to insert a gene that produces a protein lethal to the corn borer, a common pest.

Aventis, backed by much of the food industry, argues that new evidence shows that the protein at issue in the corn, Cry9C, which is inserted to kill a common pest, is highly unlikely to be an allergen.

Mr. Witherspoon said Garst would direct farmers who want next year's crops engineered to fend off the corn borer, a common pest, to use corn strains based on Monsanto's YieldGuard technology, which has government clearance for food uses.

Larvae of the European cabbage butterfly, a common agricultural pest, have such a repellent, according to research by scientists from Cornell, Arizona State and Trinity College in Connecticut.

The German cockroach (Blattella germanica), a common household pest sometimes erroneously called a waterbug, is light brown with two dark stripes on the prothoracic region.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of East Anglia, bred two lines of flour beetles – a common pantry pest and a popular laboratory organism.

Scientists have discovered how a common crop pest evades detection.

A symbiotic bacteria dramatically increases reproduction and survival in a common insect pest.