Sentence examples for resistant to insect from inspiring English sources

The plan, designed to produce a plant resistant to insect attack, ran into stiff resistance in an acrimonious public consultation earlier this year.

One makes them resistant to insect pests.

The Justice Department began an antitrust investigation of the seed industry last year, with an apparent focus on Monsanto, which controls much of the market for the expensive bioengineered traits that make crops resistant to insect pests and herbicides.

It is now possible to decrease environmental pollution and increase crop productivity by cultivating crop varieties resistant to insect damage.

He speculates that domesticated apple trees have lost their autumn "warning" colors because over the centuries farmers crossbred the trees with the largest, tastiest fruit, rather than selecting the ones most resistant to insect pests.

Plants grown under UVB light are more resistant to insect herbivory compared with plants grown under filters that exclude the radiation.

The column, however, overlooks the problem associated with genetically modified organisms, and that problem is the same with both corn and cotton: the introduced genes could escape their host plants and confer pest resistance to weeds, creating superweeds that are just as resistant to insects as the hybrids.

The crops tolerate Roundup, are resistant to insects, or both.

They are also working on a cotton that is more resistant to insects.

Until now, genetic engineering has been used mainly to make crops resistant to insects or herbicides.

Genetic engineering is currently used to make crops resistant to insects or herbicides, traits that have little value to consumers.