Responding to the threat, a team of researchers at Penn State has demonstrated that genetic lines of corn have inherent compounds that serve as insecticides, protecting them from the larvae that feed ...

In findings recently published online ahead of the March issue of Plant Stress, the researchers reported that corn earworm larvae feeding on the silks, husks and kernels of corn lines containing ...

Five replicates were set for each group. Feed supplementation was performed after disinfection according to the consumption behavior of the larvae. When approximately half of the larvae in a group had ...