Bt Crops Producing Cry1Ac, Cry2Ab and Cry1F Do Not Harm the Green Lacewing, Chrysoperla rufilabris

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tian, Jun Ce ^a,b   Wang, Xiang Ping ^a,c   Long, Li Ping ^a,d   Romeis, Jörg ^e   Naranjo, Steven E ^f   Hellmich, Richard L ^g   Wang, Ping ^a   Earle, Elizabeth D ^h   Shelton, Anthony M ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR NON FOOD BIOREFINERY   (China)

^e AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CRY1AC TOXIN; CRY1F TOXIN; CRY2AB TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CHRYSOPERLA; CHRYSOPERLA RUFILABRIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; EGG HATCH; FERTILITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL SURVIVAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MAIZE; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NOCTUIDAE; NONHUMAN; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRASSICA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENDOTOXINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GOSSYPIUM; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTS; LARVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; ZEA MAYS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. ITALICA; CHRYSOPERLA RUFILABRIS; CHRYSOPIDAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LEPIDOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84875478145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060125     Document Type: Article

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