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When sweetcorn growers in Colorado found corn earworms that were resistant to insecticides, researchers investigated, discovering that native corn earworms had hybridized with invasive Old World bollworms, onboarding insecticide-resistant genes from their relatives—a phenomenon called introgression. [Read more]
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