I am interested in obtaining manuscripts (e.g. book chapters, journal articles, news letters, etc) that document potential side effect of insect-resistant transgenic crop on arthropod. If you know of such manuscripts, please contact me via the information provided below!

email : ratri_molly@eudoramail.com

Hi,

Engineering genes encoding insecticidal proteins into crop plants offers numerous benefits to agriculture. However, like many conventional insecticides, this new technology has the potential to disrupt natural biological control through both direct and indirect side effects of the plants on the fitness or behaviour of arthropod predators and parasitoids. Interactions between transgenic plants and these beneficial insects are being assessed to avoid incompatibility.