Field assessment of the effects of transgenic rice expressing a fused gene of cry1Ab and cry1Ac from Bacillus thuringiensis berliner on nontarget planthopper and leafhopper populations

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-134

  Chen, M ^a,b   Ye, G Y ^a,c   Liu, Z C ^d   Yao, H W ^a   Chen, X X ^a   Shen, S Z ^a   Hu, C ^a   Datta, S K ^e  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

cry1Ab cry1Ac; Leafhopper; Planthopper; Population dynamics; Transgenic rice

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; POPULATION GENETICS; SAMPLING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HANGZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR BERLINER; CICADELLIDAE; LAODELPHAX STRIATELLUS; NEPHOTETTIX CINCTICEPS; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; RECILIA DORSALIS; SOGATELLA FURCIFERA;

EID: 33750215909     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-35.1.127     Document Type: Article

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