A screening level approach for nontarget insect risk assessment: Transgenic Bt corn pollen and the monarch butterfly (Lepidoptera: Danaidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 237-246

  Wolt, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Peterson, Robert K D ^a   Bystrak, Paul ^a,c   Meade, Tom ^a,b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

^c Eden Bioscience Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Corn; CrylA(b) protein; Danaus plexippus; Ecological risk assessment; Pollen

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; BUTTERFLY; CROP; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; POLLEN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DANAIDAE; DANAINAE; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLEXIPPUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037396933     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.2.237     Document Type: Review

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