Researchers ask for help to save key biopesticide

Abstract

Comments on an upcoming report, to be delivered to officials from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which will call for precautions and potential regulations that would prevent insects from becoming immune to bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). History of how Bt became a biopesticide to spray on crops; Multimillion dollar research effort to produce self-protecting crops that do not require chemicals to fight off pests; More.