Worm Now Thrives in GMO Corn Designed to Kill It, Study Says

/ Ken Finton

corn

http://www.newsweek.com/worm-now-thrives-gmo-corn-designed-kill-it-study-says-232276

FILED UNDER: Tech & Science, Agriculture, GMO, Corn

One of industrial agriculture’s biggest GMO crops may have just backfired. Scientists have confirmed that corn-destroying rootworms have evolved to be resistant to the Bt corn engineered to kill them.

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