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Web URL(s): | http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO.2003.93.6.S97#page=7 Last checked: 10/16/2015 Requires: PDF Reader Notes: Item is within a single large file |
Publication Type:
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Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
Author(s): | Brey, C. W.;
Gaugler, R. |
Author Affiliation: | Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
Title: | Risk assessment and recent developments in transgenic entomopathogenic nematodes |
Section: | Epidemiology/ecology/environmental plant pathology Other records with the "Epidemiology/ecology/environmental plant pathology" Section
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Meeting Info.: | 2003 APS Annual Meeting, August 9-13, Charlotte, North Carolina |
Source: | Phytopathology. Vol. 93, No. 6, June 2003, p. S103-S104. |
Publishing Information: | St. Paul, MN: American Phytopathological Society |
# of Pages: | 2 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Entomopathogenic nematodes; Risk assessment; Biological control organisms; Insect control; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Genetic transformation
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Abstract/Contents: | "Transgenic entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) hold promise of enormous benefit for the next generation of biological agents for soil-inhabiting insect pests. However, questions concerning the impact of transgenic EPNs on the environment have been raised. In this paper, we discuss the only controlled field release of a transgenic EPN, present state of EPN transgenic engineering, the unlikely series of events that would result in horizontal transgene flow to other organisms, and the current risk assessment process of transgenic EPNs. Briefly, a strain of the EPN Heterorhabitis bacteriophora transformed with the heat-shock protein (hsp70A) gene from Caenorhabditis elegans, was released in turfgrass field microplots in the spring, summer, and fall of 1996. As predicted, the transgenic and wild-type strains did not differ in their ability to persist. Our risk assessment study supported the regulatory view that transgenic EPN strain presented no risk in becoming a plant pest, and therefore was not considered a regulated article under the Federal Plant Pest Act." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | This item is an abstract only! |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Brey, C. W., and R. Gaugler. 2003. Risk assessment and recent developments in transgenic entomopathogenic nematodes. Phytopathology. 93(6):p. S103-S104. |
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