1.   So, it is unlikely to become a major pest problem.

2.   Bt cotton contains a gene developed by St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. that enables plants to resist several major pests.

3.   Delta and Pine Land last year introduced a genetically enhanced cotton seed that resists several major pests.

4.   In east Africa, maize fields face two major pests, and Khan has a solution to both.

5.   Monsanto this year introduced genes designed to protect cotton against major pests and to immunize soybeans, canola and potato plants against its own Roundup herbicide.

6.   Mickey Rivers and Roy White were major pests.

7.   Scientists Ron Jackson and Ian Ramshaw were seeking ways to control the spread of mice, a major pest in Australia.

8.   StarLink contains a bacterial gene that permits the corn to produce a protein that kills the corn borer, a major pest.

9.   The seed contains a gene developed by St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. that causes cotton plants to resist several major pests.

10.   The three major insect pests are apple maggot, codling moth and plum curculio.