Effects of transgenic Bt+CpTI cotton on the growth and reproduction of earthworm Eisenia foetida

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4008-4014

  Liu, Biao ^a   Cui, Jinjie ^b   Meng, Jun ^a   Hu, Wenjun ^c   Luo, Junyu ^b   Zheng, Yangping ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^c CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Eisenia foetida

Indexed keywords

EISENIA FETIDA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; COTTON; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; GOSSYPIUM; OLIGOCHAETA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 63849227400     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3508     Document Type: Article

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