If earlier the main enemy of potatoes was Colorado potato beetle, after certain genetic interventions, the situation is completely changed.

Genetics is a science that is able to radically change the usual things. For example, if before the main enemy of the potato was the Colorado potato beetle, after certain genetic interventions, the situation is completely changed, reports the journal Science.

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Scientists from the Institute of molecular plant physiology of the max Planck society was able to run the synthesis of insecticidal dsRNA not in the plant cells, chloroplasts, which are pieces of potato.

In the end, five days after eating GMO leaves, larvae of the Colorado potato beetle was dying - dsRNA was interrupted in insects synthesis of the protein actin, necessary for life.

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According to scientists, this technology is a real breakthrough in the fight against Colorado potato beetles. The fact that they can easily adapt to conventional pesticides and have no natural enemies in those countries where they were introduced from the USA.

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