Keep the cotton high (Image: Jeremy Piper/Oculi/Agence VU/Camera Press) In Monsanto’s sights: a western corn root worm beetle on a maize plant (Image: Peggy Greb/USDA/SPL)
Editorial “Careless farming could cost us benefits of GM crops“
Farmers are walking a tightrope between reaping the benefits of genetically modified crops and getting it wrong and losing all their advantages. This is the message from an analysis of the first 400 million hectares of “Bt crops”, which have been tweaked to be toxic to the pests that feed on them.
Along with weedkiller-resistant crops, Bt crops are the jewels in the crown of…
