The potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on farmland biodiversity has been a topic of interest since the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity and the first commercial release of GM crops in 1996. The adoption and use of genetically modified (GM) crops have not only...
49,50]. This is also vital to illustrate the global CC and its multidimensional impacts on biodiversity and food security via actual scientific evidence. Moreover, the findings of this study are important for tracing, quantifying, and investigating...
After years of sowing doubt about the safety of GM crops, while at the same time working to develop its own, the Chinese government is making a clear pitch to consumers and farmers that the country’s crops will need to be grown from biotech seeds, and that the food they produc...
Cover cropping is an agricultural practice that uses secondary crops to support the growth of primary crops through various mechanisms including erosion control, weed suppression, nutrient management, and enhanced biodiversity. Cover crops may elicit some of these ecosystem services through chemical interact...
Finally, we noted that some categories were not adequately covered in our database, such as biodiversity and soil biogeochemical cycles that are the processes that modulate the provision of agro-ecosystem services23. Effects on grain yield Our study indicated that GE maize hybrids increased yield ...
This pursuit for a healthier society tries to combat the toxic effects of pesticides, as they have caused a large reduction in biodiversity (mainly insects pollinators), and affect humans causing genetic mutations, Mutagenicity and carcinogenicity, reproductive damages as well as disturbances behavioral...
Bt maize often results in increased biodiversity [for general reviews see (O'Callaghanet al.2005, Romeiset al.2008)]. Specialist insects that depend on target pests are the exception to the generalization that Bt maize does not impact non-target organisms. This is particularly true for some pa...
ait is too early to conclude whether GM crops can impact on agricultural and natural ecosystems by means of secondary ecological effects to an extent that will present undesirable harm 它太早期的以至于不能结束GM庄稼是否能对农业和自然生态系冲击通过次要生态学作用在将提出不受欢迎的害处的程度上[transla...
The tomato red spider mite, Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard (Acari: Tetranychidae), is an agricultural pest of solanaceous crops. Although T. evansi is of South American subtropical origin, it has recently expanded its distribution range to many
Invasive non-native plants are changing ecosystems and native biodiversity, and modifying soil microbial feedback. The invasive species Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. (mesquite) has been introduced into several ecosystems, especially in tropical and subtr