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They control pests, and they're food for animals.
So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and pesticides.
After World War II, we started using pesticides on a large scale, and this became necessary because of the monocultures that put out a feast for crop pests.
And in the measure that we plant stuff, what we learn from agriculture is you've got to deal with pests, you've got to deal with all types of awful things, you've got to cultivate stuff.
Agricultural pests.
This pesticide is very specific to caterpillar pests, and in fact, it's nontoxic to humans, fish and birds.
Now, I've given you a couple examples of how genetic engineering can be used to fight pests and disease and to reduce the amount of insecticides.
The buzzing, the biting, the itching, the mosquito is one of the most commonly detested pests in the world.
As farming took off, people might have spurned bugs as mere pests that destroyed their crops.
But nowadays, the millions of queen bees distributed in commercial hives are bred from just a few original queens, which raises the worry about a lack of genetic diversity which could weaken bees' defenses against pathogens and pests.
After all, we've engineered transgenic crops to be maximized for profit, crops that stand up to transport, crops that have a long shelf life, crops that taste sugary sweet but resist pests, sometimes at the expense of nutritional value.
And even though they're used in labs to promote human lives, they're also considered pests.
Like this, they always have a yield, as the varieties differ in their reaction to pests and drier or wetter years.
And weatherproofing means complete control of incoming contaminants and pests, completely eliminating the need for the use of chemical pesticides.
Today's best variety is tomorrow's lunch for insects or pests or disease.
And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control, which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.
Number two, many growers are, in fact, petrified by the idea of resistance, that the pests will become resistant to the chemicals, just like in our case, that bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.
He risked his own life to help solve Tottington's pests' rabbit problem and more importantly to overcome the overcrowding of rabbits being collected and stored in his basement.
There are so many flying spheres in this movie that they seem more like household pests than menacing death orbs.
I just don't understand why the animals whine all the time, and are so afraid all the time, and just so under-your-skin pests all the time.
Actually, when deciding which short is the worst, you have to choose between HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS and THREE PESTS IN A MESS.
The little furry pests are crawling all over the place and you better hope they don't bite a chunk out of you because, when that happens, you start growing hair out of strange places and want to eat human flesh!
At the start, the technology for engineering Bt genes into cotton was aimed primarily at controlling pests.
However, new pests have emerged in Bt cotton, leading to higher use of pesticides.
A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations.
Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers lives and livelihoods.
Under the banner of “integrated pest management,” hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate themThe ability of tumor cells to adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, including toxic chemicals, is similar to the evolutionary capacities demonstrated by crop pests and other invasive species.
In addition to direct help for small farms, donors should provide more help for the research and development needed to identify new high-yielding seed varieties, especially to breed plants that can withstand temporary flooding, excess nitrogen, salty soils, crop pests, and other challenges to sustainable food production.
Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion.
The reasons were many: poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.
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