MH Wilson, ST Lovell - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Agriculture faces the unprecedented task of feeding a world population of 9 billion people by 2050 while simultaneously avoiding harmful environmental and social effects. One effort to …
Crop protection continues to be an important component of modern farming to maintain food production to feed an expanding human population, but considerable changes have …
Y Li, EM Hallerman, K Wu, Y Peng - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
With 20% of the world's population but just 7% of the arable land, China has invested heavily in crop biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity. We examine research on …
Y Li, EM Hallerman, Q Liu, K Wu… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple lines of transgenic rice expressing insecticidal genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have been developed in China, posing the prospect of increases in …
G Hu, MH Lu, DR Reynolds, HK Wang, X Chen… - Journal of Pest …, 2019 - Springer
Rice planthoppers and associated virus diseases have become the most important pests threatening food security in China and other Asian countries, incurring costs of hundreds of …
Genetic engineering (GE) offers an expanding array of strategies for enhancing disease resistance of crop plants in sustainable ways, including the potential for reduced pesticide …
X Wang, X Liu, GA Makalliwa, J Li, H Wang… - Science China Life …, 2017 - Springer
Baculoviruses are a family of arthropod-specific large DNA viruses that infect insect species belonging to the orders Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera. In nature, occlusion-derived …