From here, corn spread across the continent ... Martienssen and graduate student Ben Berube sequenced the genomes from ...

Despite some uncertainties, the monarch butterfly faces little threat from genetically modified (GM) strains of corn, according to new research presented at a symposium sponsored by the ...

Concerns that crops with built-in insecticides might damage wildlife were inflamed in 1999 by the report of a study suggesting that Bt corn pollen harmed monarch butterfly caterpillars.

Some crops can cross pollinate, and the result is a plant with DNA characteristics of both parent plants. In other words: frankencrops. Let's take corn, for example. Unlike most plants that rely on ...