The paper “Effects of multiple Bt proteins and GNA lectin on in vitro-reared honey bee larvae”, produced within the project AMIGA, has been recently published on Apidologie (2012) by DIB and Springer-Verlag. The paper has been produced by the following authors: Harmen P. HENDRIKSMA, Stephan HÄRTEL (Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Germany – leader of WP6 on Environmental impacts of GM crops on pollinators), Dirk BABENDREIER (CABI-Europe Switzerland) Werner von der OHE (Institut für Bienenkunde – LAVES, Germany), Ingolf STEFFAN-DEWENTER (Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Germany – leader of WP6 on Environmental impacts of GM crops on pollinators). The study was also funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF).
The group of researchers analysed for the first time combined effects of three Bt proteins conferring insect resistances, and a CP4-protein conferring an herbicide resistance as simultaneously expressed in one GM maize. The paper collects the first results of the AMIGA project on-going activities, which focused on the analysis of environmental risk assessments of genetically modified crops issues.
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Effects of multiple Bt proteins and GNA lectin on in vitro-reared honey bee larvae
Authors: Harmen P. HENDRIKSMA, Stephan HÄRTEL, Dirk BABENDREIER, Werner von der OHE, Ingolf STEFFAN-DEWENTER
*Apidologie (2012) 43:549–560, INRA, DIB and Springer-Verlag, France, 2012