European corn borer
ostrinia nubilalis latin

Both strains have a protein that is toxic to the European corn borer.

In the case of corn, the pest is the European corn borer.

The European corn borer attacks all of the corn plant above ground except the leaf blades.

Several of them, including the European Corn Borer, are agricultural pests.

The protein kills the European corn borer.

Another pesticide, M-Peril, is being developed to attack the European corn borer.

"There's your European corn borer," he says.

This moth is a close relative of the European corn borer (O. nubilalis).

And one third of the corn crop has now been engineered to resist a major insect pest, the European corn borer.

The gene produces Bt toxin, which kills a caterpillar called the European corn borer.

This has been observed in the Middle East blind mole rat, cicadas, and the European corn borer.

Farmers are expected to happily pay premium prices for corn altered to produce its own insecticide against common pests like the European corn borer.

The Bt toxin is aimed at killing European corn borers, which can cause major damage to corn crops.

A recent laboratory study, for example, showed that corn pollen engineered to carry a toxin against the European corn borer can kill monarch butterflies.

European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis)

Once that gene has been put into the endophytes, they make a Bacillus thuringiensis protein that kills the European corn borer.

European corn borer caterpillars damage the ears of corn, as well as the stalks, by chewing tunnels, which cause the plants to fall over.

It is no comfort to know that this pest is an accidental import, like the European corn borer, the Japanese beetle and the gypsy moth.

It says the decline is largely because of the reduced threat of the European corn borer, a major pest of corn in the Midwest.

C.G.I. hopes that the engineered bacterium, Cxc, will provide an alternative to chemical pesticides used against European corn borers.

The corn, given a gene from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, then produced a toxin that killed the European corn borer pest.

It is used against pests such as European corn borer, rice stem borer, bollworm, tobacco budworm, and boll weevil.

The European corn borer was first reported in North America in 1917 in Massachusetts, but was probably introduced from Europe several years earlier.

In maize DIMBOA functions as natural defense against European corn borer larvae and many other damaging pests.

DIMBOA is also responsible for the relative resistance of immature maize to the European corn borer (family Crambidae).

Also, the food plant of the true Ostrinia nubilalis is the common Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris).

Note that the European Corn Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) and Southern Cornstalk Borer (Diatraea crambidoides), formerly considered snout moths, are placed in the Crambidae which, as noted above, is usually regarded as a separate family today.