Plant science: Insect-resistant GM rice in farmers' fields: Assessing productivity and health effects in China

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5722, 2005, Pages 688-690

  Huang, Jikun ^a   Hu, Ruifa ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^b   Pray, Carl ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HEALTH RISKS; INSECT CONTROL; PESTICIDES; PRODUCTION;

CROP YIELDS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM) RICE; HEALTH EFFECTS; PRE-PRODUCTION TRIALS;

CROPS;

PESTICIDE;

GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HEALTH AND DISEASE; PEST RESISTANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RICE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHINA; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; HARVEST; HEALTH; INSECT RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; COST; CROP; ECONOMICS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCIDES; CULTIVATION; GENETICS; HEALTH; INSECT RESISTANCE; PRODUCTION; RICE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

INSECTA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CHINA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HEALTH; HUMANS; MOTHS; ORYZA SATIVA; PESTICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 17844383232     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108972     Document Type: Article

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19. We are grateful to Q. Zhang and Z. Zhu and their colleagues who developed GM rice in China for technical inputs and to P. J. Mines and three anonymous referees for helpful comments. The authors acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 70021001, 70333001, and 70325003) and the Chinese Academy of Science (KZCX3-SW-419).