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Plus, the trees aren't totally pest-resistant: 'You'll get caterpillars going inside the bottles to make cocoons,' says Jerry Swanson of Princeton, Wis., who sells bottle trees at bottletreecreations.com.

Bottle Trees Move Beyond Their Roots 2011

And the trees aren't necessarily pest-resistant: "You'll get caterpillars going inside the bottles to make cocoons," says Jerry Swanson of Princeton, Wis., whose bottle trees are now standing in 34 states.

Bottle Trees Join Grand Tradition of Pink Flamingos, Garden Gnomes Gwendolyn Bounds 2011

To harvest more wood, build a better chain saw; to pump more oil, drill more wells; to get more food, invent pest-resistant plants.

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Jason Arthurs for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Frampton and other scientists studying these bagged Fraser fir branches in Raleigh are on the hunt for a faster-growing, higher-quality, more pest-resistant Christmas tree.

Hunting for the Perfect Christmas Tree 2011

Numerous newly hybridized plants are introduced every year with the goal of creating trees, shrubs and perennials that perform well, are hardy, pest-resistant and long-lived and that display practical and aesthetically pleasing characteristics.

New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011

Leakey has been working with researchers from the International Crop Research Centre for the Semi-Arid Tropics Icrisat as well as the Kenya Agriculture Research Institute to develop and distribute higher-yielding and more drought- and pest-resistant crop varieties.

Small seed packets could play big role in Africa's battle against drought 2011

To harvest more wood, build a better chain saw; to pump more oil, drill more wells; to get more food, invent pest-resistant plants.

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This stance has been richly fed for more than two decades now by activists and lobbyists, who oppose modern agriculture on the incorrect premise that engineering a tomato seed to be more pest-resistant or a corn seed to yield more crops makes the tomato or corn dangerous to human health.

Africa Can Feed the World . . . Gilbert Arap Bor 2011

It is unlikely to have any immediate effect on the biotech world, which for more than two decades has used various methods of recombinant DNA technology to manipulate to manufacture drugs, produce pest-resistant crops and enhance the nutritional value of food.

Scientists create cell based on man-made genetic instructions 2010

In only seven years, the introduction of pest-resistant, genetically engineered cotton has revolutionized the nation's cotton production -- halved insecticide requirements, doubled yield and generated aggregate economic benefit for farmers of more than $5 billion.

A Greener Earth Day 2010