Covert communiqué from Maizar on the breakdown of Bt corn resistance against the corn earworm: "It is recommended to count

After INTA Reconquista alerted about the breaking of resistance of the MIR 162 event – present in the maize varieties Trecepta, VT4 PRO, Power Core Ultra, Viptera 3, and Leptra –, Maizar issued a statement on the matter, albeit in a somewhat peculiar manner. Maizar's statement is actually a paragraph included in the latest report of the National Monitoring Network of Dalbulus maidis ("Maize Cicadilla"). For some reason, the entity representing the entire maize value chain chose this stealthy methodology to inform about the issue. That is to say: after reading the entire report on the latest national survey of the "maize cicadilla," which fortunately brings good news, there appears a paragraph titled "Note on unexpected damage by Spodoptera frugiperda on Bt maize." "Recently, in some lots of the NEA and the Littoral, damage levels above the expected caused by the maize earworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) have been detected in Bt materials that, until last campaign, showed high levels ...