The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

Genetic modification in plants was first recorded 10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia where
humans first bred plants through artificial selection and selective breeding. Since then …

Despite numerous future promises, there is a multitude of concerns about the impact of GM
crops on the environment. Key issues in the environmental assessment of GM crops are …

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the
female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural …

A collaborative research effort by scientists in several states and in Canada has produced
information to develop a formal risk assessment of the impact of Bt corn on monarch butterfly …

Atmospheric chemists have historically treated leaves as inert surfaces that merely emit
volatile hydrocarbons. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that leaves are …

Food and feed has been produced from genetically modified (GM) crops for 25 years. It is
timely to review whether this technology has globally delivered the expected benefits and …

By the end of the 1980s, a broad consensus had developed that there were potential
environmental risks of transgenic plants requiring assessment and that this assessment …

Genetically modified (or GM) plants have attracted a large amount of media attention in
recent years and continue to do so. Despite this, the general public remains largely unaware …

Corn (Zea mays L.) that has been genetically engineered to produce the Cry1Ab protein (Bt
corn) is resistant to lepidopteran pests. Bt corn is widely planted in the midwestern United …