Monsanto to reveal new technology for protecting corn from insects

ST. LOUIS Monsanto Co. has identified a new way to protect crops against insect pests.
The world’s biggest seed company announced Sunday it discovered the new approach in partnership with Belgium-based biotech firm Devgen NV.
Monsanto said the technology would be unveiled this month in the scientific journal Nature Biotechnology.
The technology is called RNA interference, which uses a cellular mechanism in plants that regulates gene expression. Monsanto said it found a way to use the interface to enable plants to better fend off pests.
Monsanto hopes to use the technology in a strain of corn designed to repel rootworms.