Consumption of snowdrop lectin (Galanthus nivalis agglutinin) causes direct effects on adult parasitic wasps

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 528-536

  Romeis, Jörg ^a   Babendreier, Dirk ^a   Wäckers, Felix L ^b  

^a Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GNA; Honeydew; Parasitoids; Risk assessment; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PARASITOID; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIIDAE; APHIDIINAE; APHIDIUS COLEMANI; BRACONIDAE; COTESIA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA BRASSICAE; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; VESPIDAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 0037335387     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1144-9     Document Type: Article

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