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Volume 25 Issue 11, November 2007

Insect pests such as the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera consume a substantial portion of global agricultural outputs. Mao et al. (p 1307) and Baum et al. (p 1322) show that ingestion of transgenic plant material that expresses gene-specific double-stranded RNA can trigger potentially lethal RNA interference in several herbivorous insect pests. Credit: © Alessio Di Leo http://www.alessiodileo.com/

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