Composition of arthropod species assemblages in Bt-expressing and near isogenic eggplants in experimental fields

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 213-227

  Arpaia, Salvatore ^a   Di Leo, Grazia M ^b   Fiore, Maria C ^b   Schmidt, Jörg E U ^c   Scardi, Michele ^d  

^a Trisaia Research Center   (Italy)

^b Metapontum Agrobios ^*  (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biosafety; Cry3Bb; Multivariate analysis; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSECTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOPESTICIDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PROTEIN; TOXIN; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VEGETABLE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIODIVERSITY; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

ALTICINI; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; CICADELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; OTUS; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 34047102812     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[213:COASAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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