Killing crop-damaging insects by targeting genes essential to their survival is a promising approach to pest control. Because essential genes are often conserved across multiple insect species, the challenge is finding targets whose silencing kills the pests but not beneficial insects. Led by Georg Jander, a professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), a team of […] Read more
Controlling insect pests without harming beneficial insect species
Science Notes: Horizontally transferred genes in insect genomes can selectively kill green peach aphids
