#ForewordFriday: The Agricultural Arms Race
By Meghan Bartels / On December 19th, 2014
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Pesticide Cross-Resistance
By Andy Dyer / On December 15th, 2014
Reposted from the Chasing the Red Queen blog with permission.
The concept of cross-resistance is well known in the medical world and in research on bacteria. The idea is that when a bacterial strain becomes resistant to one antibiotic, it can become resistant to another similar antibiotic even though the bacteria has never been exposed to the second antibiotic.
Another one bites the dust, nature conquers biotech — again
By [node:field_contributor] / On March 19th, 2014
Cross-posted from Emily Monosson's Evolution in a toxic world
And another one bites the dust. Corn rootworms, once the scourge of corn growers, stymied by corn engineered to produce Bt toxin (a crystalline toxin that basically pokes holes in the guts of these worms) are back.
Hazards of the Harvest: Children in the Fields
By Elizabeth Grossman / On August 9th, 2011
While the rest of the country has been experiencing an epic heat wave, in the Pacific Northwest where I live, thus far the summer has been unusually cool. One consequence of the cool weather is a slow-to-appear local tomato crop, made evident to consumers by some remarkably high prices.