Toxicological assessment of pollen from different Bt rice lines on Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombyxidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 825-837

  Yao, Hong Wei ^a   Jiang, Cai Ying ^a,b   Ye, Gong Yin ^a   Hu, Cui ^a   Peng, Yu Fa ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Bt rice; Pathological effect; Pollen grains; Toxic effect

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSECTICIDE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOASSAY; LARVA; MOTH; PATHOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; PROTEIN; RICE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY; TOXICOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; POLLEN; RICE; SILKWORM; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; BOMBYX; ENDOTOXINS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; PUPA;

BOMBYCIDAE; BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA; MORUS (PLANT);

EID: 46849101767     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[825:TAOPFD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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