Ontario Genomics Institute Tapped to Develop Viral Pesticide for Legume Crop Insect

Feb 24, 2004

NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (GenomeWeb News) - The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) said today that Canada's Great Lakes Forestry Center (GLFC) has selected it to co-develop a virus-based biopesticide to control the velvet bean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis, which causes hundreds of millions of dollars of damage annually to soybeans and other legume crops

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