Comments on: Dent Appears in Armor of Pest-Resistant Cotton http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/thegist/2008/02/11/dent-appears-in-armor-of-pest-resistant-cotton/ Science, Insight, Summary, Smithsonain.com Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:18:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: canagica http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/thegist/2008/02/11/dent-appears-in-armor-of-pest-resistant-cotton/comment-page-1/#comment-3708 canagica Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:18:39 +0000 http://thegist.smithsonianmag.com/archives/232#comment-3708 One interesting side note-the USDA requires that each field planted with a Bt crop have a "refuge" of a certain percentage that is planted with non-Bt crop to decrease the likelihood that resistance evolves (mentioned in ). However, with cotton and corn prices (especially corn) increasing there has been an increased trend towards eliminating the refugia for short-term gain on historically high crop prices... One interesting side note-the USDA requires that each field planted with a Bt crop have a “refuge” of a certain percentage that is planted with non-Bt crop to decrease the likelihood that resistance evolves (mentioned in ).

However, with cotton and corn prices (especially corn) increasing there has been an increased trend towards eliminating the refugia for short-term gain on historically high crop prices…

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