No adverse effect of genetically modified antifungal wheat on decomposition dynamics and the soil fauna community - a field study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Duc, Caroline ^a   Nentwig, Wolfgang ^a   Lindfeld, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CHITINASE; GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNIN;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CECIDOMYIIDAE; CEREAL; CLITELLATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSTIGMATA; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GAMASINA; ISOTOMIDAE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT LITTER; PLANT METABOLISM; POWDERY MILDEW; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TAXONOMY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UROPODINA; WHEAT; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT STRUCTURES; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACARI; ANNELIDA; CECIDOMYIIDAE; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; ERYSIPHALES; GAMASINA; ISOTOMIDAE; ORIBATIDA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; UROPODINA;

DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRITICUM;

EID: 80054744232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025014     Document Type: Article

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