Assessment of potential risks of dietary RNAi to a soil micro-arthropod, Sinella curviseta Brook (Collembola: Entomobryidae)

RNAi-based genetically engineered (GE) crops for the management of insect pests are likely to be commercialized by the end of this decade. Without a workable framework for conducting the ecological risk assessment (ERA) and a standardized ERA protocol, however, the utility of RNAi transgenic crops i...

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Main Authors: Huipeng Pan, Linghua Xu, Jeffrey Edward Noland, Hu Li, Blair D. Siegfried, Xuguo Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01028/full