Impact of Single and Stacked Insect-Resistant Bt-Cotton on the Honey Bee and Silkworm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Niu, Lin ^a   Ma, Yan ^b   Mannakkara, Amani ^a,c   Zhao, Yao ^a   Ma, Weihua ^a   Lei, Chaoliang ^a   Chen, Lizhen ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; CRY1AB TOXIN; CRY1AC TOXIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BOMBYX MORI; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; CULTIVAR; FEEDING; INSECT RESISTANCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; BEES; BOMBYX; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GOSSYPIUM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

EID: 84883628500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072988     Document Type: Article

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