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The coronavirus pandemic is upending global supply chains, and the looming economic recession could make managing the complex web of vendors even harder. Some large corporations are turning to artificial intelligence to help. On Thursday, Pactum announced a pilot project with Walmart. The world's largest retailer will use the startup's platform to automate…

When apples are subjected to mechanical damage, such as slicing, the apple flesh changes its original color and becomes brownish. Some consumers perceive this as a problem. But fear not—scientists have created nonbrowning Arctic® apples, which are genetically modified in order to solve this “problem.” As the marketing people who…

India has axed the royalties that local seed companies pay to German drugmaker Bayer AG for Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) cotton, a government order said, after cutting them back since 2016.More than 45 local cotton seed companies pay royalties to Monsanto, acquired by Bayer in 2018, for GM cotton using…

FILE PHOTO: Monsanto is displayed on a screen where the stock is traded on the floor of the NYSEBy Mayank BhardwajNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has axed the royalties that local seed companies pay to German drugmaker Bayer AG for Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) cotton, a government order said, after…

Subscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health Newsletter It may sound like a “Mission Impossible” movie plot but, in reality, truth again proves stranger than fiction, with the arrests of two Chinese nationals and a Harvard professor, all charged with espionage, theft of trade secrets and hacking. The U.S. Department…

Multiple groups on Friday sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision to re-approve a chemical used in Bayer's Roundup weed killer.The agency re-approved the chemical, known as glyphosate, in January, claiming that it doesn’t pose a danger to humans. Thousands of lawsuits, however, have attributed cancer to Roundup.One lawsuit against the EPA was…

Ep. 317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. To date they have raised over $58M from some of the best in the business including Index Ventures, John Collison, Paul English, Drew Houston, Frederic Kerrest,…

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Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jing Wang,  Huanhuan Ma,  Shan Zhao,  Jianlei Huang,  Yihua Yang,  Bruce E. Tabashnik,  Yidong Wu x Published: March 19, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008427 AbstractEvolution of pest resistance reduces the efficacy of insecticidal proteins from the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) used widely in sprays and…

On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a global pandemic, the first since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. Initially reported in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December, just four months later there are…