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    Use of banker plant system for sustainable management of the most important insect pest in rice fields in China

    To meet the World’s food demand, there is a growing need for sustainable pest management practices. This study describes the results from complementary laboratory and field studies of a “banker plant system” f...

    Xusong Zheng, Yanhui Lu, **yang Zhu, Facheng Zhang, Junce Tian in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Variation among conventional cultivars could be used as a criterion for environmental safety assessment of Bt rice on nontarget arthropods

    The current difficulty facing risk evaluations of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crops on nontarget arthropods (NTAs) is the lack of criteria for determining what represents unacceptable risk. In this study, we inve...

    Fang Wang, Cong Dang, Xuefei Chang, Junce Tian, Zengbin Lu, Yang Chen in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Selective enhancement of parasitoids of rice Lepidoptera pests by sesame (Sesamum indicum) flowers

    Rice is one of the most important global crops but, despite suffering serious insect pest damage, has been less the subject of conservation biological control research compared with crops of importance in deve...

    **yang Zhu, Gengwei Wang, Xusong Zheng, Junce Tian, Zhongxian Lu in BioControl (2015)

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    Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV) directly affects the feeding and reproduction behavior of its vector, Sogatella furcifera (Horváth) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

    Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV) is a recently discovered member of the genus Fijivirus and it is transmitted by the rice whitebacked planthopper (WBPH), Sogatella furcifera (Horváth). It was fou...

    Hongxing Xu, **aochan He, Xusong Zheng, Yajun Yang, Junce Tian in Virology Journal (2014)

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    Application of a novel method PCR-ligase detection reaction for tracking predator—prey trophic links in insect-resistant GM rice ecosystem

    Insect-resistant genetically modified (IRGM) rice is on the verge of commercial release in China, however, its potential non-target effect on non-target insect natural enemies remains controversial. Tracking t...

    Kai Li, Junce Tian, Qinxi Wang, Qiang Chen, Mao Chen, Huan Wang in Ecotoxicology (2011)