Researchers develop insect sex pheromones in transgenic camelina plant for maintainable pest control Kumar Jeetendra | January 15, 2021 The camelina plant, a source of cooking oil for centuries, is on its way toward revolutionizing pest management in agriculture. Researchers at ISCA, Inc., a green agtech firm based in Riverside, Calif., and their collaborators in Sweden have “grown” insect sex pheromone precursors in genetically modified strains of camelina plants, creating a low-cost source of …
