1. -- Control the cotton boll weevil by a pheromone insecticide-baited stick to attract and kill the pest. 2. BT corn contains a bacterial gene that causes it to produce a toxin that kills pests that eat the plant. 3. Khan, meanwhile, is going back to the wastelands of Kenya looking for more grasses to kill common pests. 4. Kiwis, a staple fruit export from Chile to the U.S., have to be fumigated prior to export to kill pests. 5. Novartis sells a strain of corn altered so that its stalk contains an insecticide meant to kill corn pests. 6. StarLink contains a bacterial gene that produces a protein that kills pests. 7. Still, the product development folks have gone to great lengths to develop new ways to trap and kill household pests. 8. StarLink contains a bacterial gene that allows the corn to produce a protein that kills some pests. 9. The Bt genes are a biologic code for assembling proteins that can kill certain pests while having no effect on beneficial insects and animals. 10. The companies are also working on other genetic changes to arm plants with chemical defenses that will kill pests with resistance to the Bt proteins. |