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Compatibility of Bt-transgenic Pulses with Biological Control
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| Coordinating organisation: | Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology |
| Description: | To ensure a sustainable deployment of insect-resistant transgenic plants, it is important that they are compatible with other pest control measures, including biological control, and that deployment strategies are in place to decrease the rate at which the target insect develops resistance to the insecticidal compound(s) expressed by the transgenic plant. It is therefore necessary that the novel plants are studied for their effects on natural enemies of plant-pests prior to their large-scale deployment, and to investigate whether natural enemies could affect the rate of development of resistance to the transgene product in the target insect pests. The proposed project aims to assess the risks that insect-resistant transgenic pulses pose for non-target biological control agents, i.e. predators, parasitoids and entomopathogenic fungi. Transgenic pulses (chickpea and pigeonpea) that express cry genes from the soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for the control of cotton bollworm/pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), one of the most devastating pests worldwide, will be used as model plants. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 186000 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2005-01-01 |
| End: | 2007-08-31 |
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| ARD-theme: | plant protection/IPM biotechnology |
| Target country: | India |
| Commodity: | legume |
| Activity: | training research |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 2 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2006-06-08 12:06:12 |