Cry proteins currently produced in commercialized Bt crops target insects in the orders Lepidoptera (moths) and Coleoptera (beetles).
Using RNAi-based approaches in legume crops targeting these essential aphid genes could lead to effective durable resistance to this destructive pest.
This review collates the evidence on the retention of provitamin A carotenoid (pVAC) after processing, cooking, and storing of the staple crops targeted for pVAC biofortification: cassava, maize, and sweet potato.
Atomwise was able to find promising compounds against crop protection targets that are important areas of focus for agrochemical R&D".
While natural selection acts on both types, crop breeding targets primarily small variants, as their inheritance patterns are better understood and therefore, more efficiently manipulated, and because small variants code for single functional changes (amino acid and protein changes).
Crop improvement targeting high yield and tolerance to environmental stresses has become the need of the hour.
Specifically, crop improvement targeting high-yield and enhanced tolerance to various environmental stresses has become an urgent necessity.
But more recently hardware kits that aim to break down some of this complexity have been cropping up — targeting developers who are more comfortable building software than hardware, such as relayr's WunderBar or the health- and fitness-focused BITalino.
The allegations against Soberón and Bravo involved papers on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins, which are used in engineered crops to target insect pests.
Thus, the sustainability of GM crops that target haplodiploid or parthenogenetic pests will require careful consideration of the effects of reproductive mode, fitness costs, and incomplete resistance.
