With the cukivation of Bt cotton, the produced insecticidal Cry proteins are ingested by herbivores and potentially transferred along the food chain to natural enemies, such as predators. In laboratory experiments wit...
While CrylAc has been known to bind with larval midgut proteins cad- herin, APN (amino peptidase N), ALP (alkaline phosphatase) and ABCC2 (adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter subfamily C2), littl...
RJ. Shi received support from the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China (No. 31400348), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and the Startup Foundation of Nanjing Forestry University (GXL038). J.Z. Wei and G.M. Liang received support from the Key Project for Breeding Genetically Modified Organisms (2014ZX08011-002), and the National Natural Science Foundations of China (No. 30971921, 31321004).
Transgenic crops are increasingly promoted for their practical effects on suppressing certain insect pests, but all transgenic crops are not equally successful. The insect pests can easily develop resistance against s...