Impact of transgenic Bt maize residues on the mycotoxigenic plant pathogen Fusarium graminearum and the biocontrol agent Trichoderma atroviride

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1001-1009

  Naef, Andreas ^a   Zesiger, Thierry ^b   Défago, Geneviève ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SMart Nose SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; MICROSATELLITE-BASED POLYMERASE; SAPROPHYTIC GROWTH; SPECTROMETER-BASED ELECTRONIC NOSE;

BIOCONTROL; BIOMASS; COMPOSITION; ENZYMES; FUNGI; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PROTEINS; TISSUE; TOXIC MATERIALS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; PROTEIN CRY1AB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOMITOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GAMMA RADIATION; MAIZE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDAE; WHEAT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHODERMA; TRICHOTHECENES; ZEA MAYS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; FUNGI; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33746408665     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0334     Document Type: Article

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