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2024 Brevant Brand Corn Offers New Genetics & Traits

January 16, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: Brevant

The 2024 class of Brevant brand corn features 40 new products with industry-leading genetics and traits.

[Video] Bayer Crop Science Provides the Tools Needed to Combat Corn Rootworm

September 27, 2022 | Posted in Crop Protection

For those struggling with Corn Rootworm, Bayer Crop Science has been working on a solution to curb the effects of these destructive insects. While competitor's products can offer middling protection by using BT proteins, Smartstax Pro from Bayer compliments its use of BT proteins with RNA Interference Technology which changes the makeup of the root, which when ingested denies an essential protein to the rootworm larvae, thus killing the insect before it can ravage the roots.

Bayer Reports EPA Approval for Pesticide Combo

March 3, 2022 | Posted in Crop Protection

VT4PROTM Technology will mark the first product that combines the power of the three modes of built-in action in Trecepta Technology, an above-ground pest package for corn that controls insects such as corn earworm and western bean cutworm, along with an RNAi-based mode of action, the latest defense to help manage corn rootworm.

Can New Mode of Action Provide Lasting Control of Corn Rootworm?

By Julia Gerlach posted on March 8, 2021 | Posted in Crop Protection, Precision Agriculture

Insects have historically proven very adept at developing resistance to control measures. A new trait, this one harnessing RNA technology, aims to provide diversity in the modern farmer's pest control toolbox.

Next Generation Of Insecticides Will Be RNAi Based

July 5, 2013 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: South Dakota State University Extension

The hottest topic of discussion and research by entomologists of the world appears to be RNAi-based insecticides.

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