Increasing applied pesticide toxicity threatens plants and insects
E-Mail IMAGE: Insects and crustaceans in surface waters are among those exposed to increasing total applied pesticide toxicity. view more Credit: Renja Bereswill A group of scientists from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, has shown that for plants and insects the applied pesticide toxicity in agriculture has substantially increased between 2004 and 2016. In a paper published in the current issue of Science, the authors show that this pattern is even relevant in genetically modified (GM) crops that were originally designed to reduce pesticide impacts on the environment. "...
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