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Bt cotton in KwaZulu Natal: technological triumph but institutional failure
In the1998/1999 season, Bt cotton was commercially released to Zulu smallholders in Makhatini Flats, KwaZulu Natal and by 2001/2 over 90% of the app...
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Guidelines on information requirements for import and release of invertebrate biological control age
Several international documents have been published in recent years with the objective of providing guidance to industry, biocontrol practitioners an...
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What we have learnt on impacts of Bt cotton on non-target organisms in China.
Bt transgenic cotton, containing a Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene, has been widely planted in cotton growing areas in China since 1997. One of the ...
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Excision of selectable marker genes from transgenic plants by site-specific DNA recombination.
Current genetic transformation methods have relatively low efficiencies, e.g. in the successful model species Arabidopsis thaliana, the transformation...
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Generating transgenic plants by minimal addition of exogenous DNA - a novel selection marker based o
Most transgenic crops available on the market contain antibiotic resistance genes as selection markers. Although scientifically not justified, this ra...
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GM technology to benefit farmers in Nigeria.
Nigeria, with favourable agro-climatic conditions and an estimated cultivable land area of 71.2 million hectares, can produce food crops exceeding the...
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Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larvae and Bt maize pollen: a review of ecological risk assessm
The four main ecological concerns from transgenic Bt crops are gene flow of the transgenes to other plant species or strains, evolution of resistance ...
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Responses of farmland wildlife to genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops.
Genetically modified herbicide-tolerant (GMHT) crops have the potential to affect farmland wildlife through the associated pesticide usage and manag...
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Biological control of pests in Ukraine: legacy from the past and challenges for the future.
Biological control has a long and rich history in Ukraine which is closely linked with other countries of the Former Soviet Union, and some relevant s...
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The predatory stinkbug Podisus nigrispinus: biology, ecology and augmentative releases for lepidoper
Podisus nigrispinus feeds primarily on insect larvae. It has been reared and released in Brazil to control lepidopterous larvae, particularly defoliat...
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