1. For instance, corn might be engineered so that its bacterially derived pesticide gene is turned on only in the parts of the plant that corn borers eat. 2. In a greenhouse, they even have engineered corn to produce a human spermicide. 3. The StarLink corn is engineered to insert a gene that produces a protein lethal to the corn borer, a common pest. 4. The StarLink corn is engineered to produce a protein toxic to a common pest, the corn borer. 5. Corn can be engineered to produce a natural pesticide called Bt, one of the best natural pesticides organic farmers use. 6. StarLink corn was genetically engineered to produce a corn plant that is better resistant to a major pest, the European corn borer. 7. The corn is genetically engineered to produce a natural pesticide that kills the corn-destroying European corn borer. 8. The StarLink corn was engineered to be toxic to insect pests. |