19 Result(s)

Article

Cooperative herbivory between two important pests of rice

Normally, when different species of herbivorous arthropods feed on the same plant this leads to fitness-reducing competition. We found this to be different for two of Asia’s most destructive rice pests, the br...

Qingsong Liu, **aoyun Hu, Shuangli Su, Yuese Ning, Yufa Peng… in Nature Communications (2021)

Article

Cry1C rice doesn’t affect the ecological fitness of rice brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens either under RDV stress or not

The potential risks of Bt rice on non-target arthropods (NTAs) should be evaluated and defined before commercial production. Recently, effects of Bt rice on NTAs under abiotic and biotic stress conditions attract...

Xuefei Chang, Linlin Sun, Duo Ning, Cong Dang, Hongwei Yao, Qi Fang… in Scientific Reports (2020)

Article

Excessive Chinese concerns over genetically engineered food safety are unjustified

Yunhe Li, Eric M. Hallerman, Yufa Peng in Nature Plants (2020)

Article

Cadherin CsCad plays differential functional roles in Cry1Ab and Cry1C intoxication in Chilo suppressalis

Transgenic rice lines expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins have been successfully developed for the control of Chilo suppressalis. However, the evolution of insect resistance is a major threat to Bt rice...

Lixiao Du, Geng Chen, Lanzhi Han, Yufa Peng in Scientific Reports (2019)

Article

Combined transcriptome and metabolome analyses to understand the dynamic responses of rice plants to attack by the rice stem borer Chilo suppressalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Rice (Oryza sativa L.), which is a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, is frequently attacked by herbivorous insects, including the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis. C. suppressalis subst...

Qingsong Liu, **ngyun Wang, Vered Tzin, Jörg Romeis, Yufa Peng… in BMC Plant Biology (2016)

Article

Ingestion of Bt corn pollen containing Cry1Ab/2Aj or Cry1Ac does not harm Propylea japonica larvae

Propylea japonica (Thunberg) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is a prevalent pollen consumer in corn fields and is therefore exposed to insecticidal proteins contained in the pollen of insect-resistant transgenic corn...

Yanmin Liu, Qingsong Liu, Yanan Wang, ** Chen, **nyuan Song… in Scientific Reports (2016)

Article

Toxicological and biochemical analyses demonstrate no toxic effect of Cry1C and Cry2A to Folsomia candida

Collembolans are common soil arthropods that may be exposed to insecticidal proteins produced in genetically engineered (GE) plants by ingestion of crop residues or root exudates. In the present study, a dieta...

Yan Yang, ** Chen, Lisheng Cheng, Fengqin Cao, Jörg Romeis… in Scientific Reports (2015)

Article

Bt rice does not disrupt the host-searching behavior of the parasitoid Cotesia chilonis

We determined whether plant volatiles help explain why Cotesia chilonis (a parasitoid of the target pest Chilo suppressalis) is less abundant in Bt than in non-Bt rice fields. Olfactometer studies revealed that C...

Qingsong Liu, Jörg Romeis, Huilin Yu, Yongjun Zhang, Yunhe Li… in Scientific Reports (2015)

Article

Cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility gene provides direct evidence for some hybrid rice recently evolving into weedy rice

Weedy rice infests paddy fields worldwide at an alarmingly increasing rate. There is substantial evidence indicating that many weedy rice forms originated from or are closely related to cultivated rice. There ...

**gxu Zhang, Zuomei Lu, Weimin Dai, **aoling Song, Yufa Peng… in Scientific Reports (2015)

Article

Consumption of Bt rice pollen containing Cry1C or Cry2A does not pose a risk to Propylea japonica (Thunberg) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

As a pollen feeder, Propylea japonica would be directly exposed to Cry proteins in Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)-transgenic rice fields. The effect of Cry1C- or Cry2A-containing transgenic rice pollen on the fitnes...

Yunhe Li, **aojie Zhang, ** Chen, Jörg Romeis, **nming Yin… in Scientific Reports (2015)