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At Legume Laboratory Blog:

Lately we’ve written a few posts about how crop resistance may be increased in the future. Our last post covered the development of a material able to pass RNAi protection to crops, and the one prior to that covered the multitude of sustainable new methods that may play a role in disease management.

This month, the Plant Biotechnology Journal (which is open – thank you Wiley) published an article looking at a possible way of reducing the evolutionary pressure caused by transgenic crops with one specific method of protection (Bt cotton in this study) as well as improving protection against pests that have developed resistance…