A Bt TRANSGENE REDUCES HERBIVORY AND ENHANCES FECUNDITY IN WILD SUNFLOWERS

By A. Snow, D. Pilson, Loren H. Rieseberg, M. Paulsen, N. Pleskac, Michael Reagon, D. Wolf, S. M. Selbo. 2003

300 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Molecular Biology

1. C. Neal Stewart Jr.
2. B. Lu
3. Jim M. Dunwell
4. P. Meirmans
5. S. Chandler
6. A. Snow
7. S. Naranjo
8. Nicolas C. Rochette

In Plant Science

1. A. Traveset
2. C. Morales
3. M. Altieri
4. H. R. Prendeville
5. D. Pilson
6. B. Lu
7. Jim M. Dunwell
8. P. Meirmans

Citations in the corpus

• Gene Flow, Risk Assessment and the Environmental Release of Transgenic Plants (2008, background): “Snow et al. (2003) reported an increased seed production in wild sunflower populations carrying the Bt resistance gene.”
• The Myth of Coexistence: Why Transgenic Crops Are Not Compatible With Agroecologically Based Systems of Production (2005, background): “Snow et al. (2003) showed that when a transgene coding for an insecticidal compound moved from commercial transgenic sunflower into weedy sunflowers, the weeds experienced reduced herbivory and produced more seeds, thus transgene escape is making a weed problem worse.”
• Introgression of crop alleles into wild or weedy populations (2013, background): “…some genetically based crop traits are detrimental, whereas others, such as larger seed size, early competitive advantage, and insect resistance, have a selective advantage that could facilitate their introgression into WW populations (Baack et al. 2008, Dechaine et al. 2009, Snow et al. 2003).”
• Interspecific Pollen Transfer: Magnitude, Prevalence and Consequences for Plant Fitness (2008, background): “For example, Bt transgenes can be transferred from cultivated transgenic sunflower (Heliantus annuus) to wild weedy sunflower (H. annuus) via pollination, which can increase the seed set of Bt wild hybrids by 55% (Snow et al., 2003).”
• Ecological Effects of Transgenic Crops and the Escape of Transgenes into Wild Populations (2004, background): “Moreover, when BC1 plants were grown in the greenhouse (in the absence of herbivores), there was neither a benefit nor a cost of the transgene (Snow et al. 2003).”