The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

Thirty-five percent of global production from crops including at least 800 cultivated plants
depend on animal pollination. The transformation of agriculture in the past half-century has …

" El Proyecto de Investigación: Introducción a la metodología científica" 6ª Edición 2012,
obra de Fidias G. Arias, obtuvo el Premio Nacional 2006 como Mejor Libro Técnico …

Bees are major pollinators of Angiosperms and therefore their apparent decline is of
importance for humans and biodiversity. We synthesise results of 12 recent reviews to …

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The area devoted to growing transgenic plants expressing insecticidal Cry proteins derived
from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is increasing worldwide. A major concern with the adoption of …

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the
female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural …

Constraints to the sustainability of insecticide use include effects on human health,
agroecosystems (eg, beneficial insects), the wider environment (eg, non-target species …

Recent applications of biotechnology, especially genetic engineering, have revolutionized
crop improvement and increased the availability of valuable new traits. A current example is …

Background Uncertainty persists over the environmental effects of genetically-engineered
crops that produce the insecticidal Cry proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). We performed …