Bt is used as a pesticide to fight cotton bollworms, corn borers and other pests.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

If there are droughts, pests, other things that interfere with the growing of the food you've got problems.

如果发生旱灾,虫灾,或其他妨碍食物生长的灾害,你就有麻烦了

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Some of the challenges that you see here I mentioned before, so there are problems with drought, with pests, with temperature changes and the like.

我之前提到的,你们所见的这些挑战,如干旱问题,虫害问题以及温度变化之类的

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There are two major traits among these GE crops: resistance to certain insect pests, and resistance to a weed-killer called glyphosate.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Also one of the most useful resources you'll find is the course's website; where not only will the obvious be posted like handouts and such, pests in the syllabus, but there will also be a variety of tools that you can turn to over the course of the semester including our own videos.

而且你将发现最有用的资源之一就是课程网站,这里不仅有讲义,教学大纲的错误之处，还有大量课程中使用的工具,包括我们自己的视频等,这对这学习很有帮助。

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The biodiversity has shrunk for various reasons of profitability and as a consequence of that things like corn crops, and the orange crops in Florida are particularly susceptible to certain environmental conditions, certain pests, and certain types of blight.

生物多样性的减少源自利益的驱动,和玉米一样,佛罗里达的柑橘作物很容易受到,一定环境条件的影响,还有虫害和枯萎病

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