RNAi Based Insecticidal Crops: Risk Awareness

This animation lends a non-technical perspective to the mechanisms, uses, and risks of utilizing RNAi technology as a pesticide in agricultural applications.

BASED ON THE ARTICLE
RNAi-Based Insecticidal Crops: Potential Effects on Nontarget Species
Lundgren JG, Duan JJ.
BioScience Magazine, Vol. 63 No. 8, 2013

And also

igrow.org/agronomy/corn/the-next-generation-of-pesticides/

DIRECTOR/LEAD ANIMATOR
CABLE HARDIN

ASSISTANT ANIMATOR
GEORGE RUIZ
NARRATION
DAVID HARDIN

ADDITIONAL CONTENT FROM THE NOUN PROJECT
Atlas by Jakob Vogel
Baby by Jakob Vogel
City by Thibault Geffroy
Corn by Nithin Viswanathan
DNA by Ola Mueller
Earth by Thibault Geffroy
Farm by Jane Pellicciotto
Farm by Lil Squid
Flask by Mister Pixel
Forest by Juan Pablo Bravo
Grass by Bryn Mackenzie
Saw by Alexey A. Butakov
Trees by Michael Zick Doherty
Turtle by Christy Presler
Vitruvian Man by Budi Hartono
Worker by Juan Pablo Bravo
World by Ted Grajeda

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
2014