Short-term effects of different genetically modified maize varieties on arthropod food web properties: an experimental field assessment
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There is concern that genetically modified (GM) plants may have adverse affects on the arthropod biodiversity comprising agricultural landscapes. The present study report on a two year field experimental test of whether four different genotypic lines, some are novel with no previous field tests, of GM maize hybrids alter the structure of arthropod food webs that they harbour, relative to non-GM maize (control) that is widely used in agriculture. The different GM genotypes produced either Bt toxins, conferred glyphosate tolerance or a combination of the two traits. Quantitative food web analysis, based on short-term assessment assigning a total of 243,896 arthropod individuals collected from the treatments to their positions in food webs, revealed that complex and stable food webs persisted in each maize treatment. Moreover, food web structure remained relatively unchanged by the GM-genotype. The results suggest that at least in short-term period these particular GM maize genotypes will not have adverse effects on arthropod biota of agricultural landscapes.
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Three articles [34-36] had a high influence on the significance of effect sizes.
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For the analysis on all taxa and Bt proteins with no records excluded, Ref. [35] contributed 358, Ref. [36] 158, and Ref. [34] 126 of 2220 total records.
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The analysis with stacked maize was dominated by two articles, [35] (68 of 120 records) and [36] (28 records).
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Some articles contributed high numbers of records as they reported on experiments with multiple transformation events from several locations and years.
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- Authors
- Szénási, Á., Pálinkás, Z., Zalai, M., Schmitz, O. J., & Balog, A.
- Affiliations
- Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem (HU)
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Szénási, Ágnes
- Balog, Adalbert
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2014-06-17
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5315-5315
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4060488
- OpenAlex
- W2029152643
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 4.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Keywords
- transgenic maize, arthropod food webs, food web structure, delta-endotoxin, glyphosate tolerance, arthropod diversity, agricultural landscapes, environmental risk assessment, non-target effects
- MeSH terms
- Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins, Algorithms, Animals, Arthropods, Bacterial Proteins, Zea mays, Endotoxins, Hemolysin Proteins, Host-Parasite Interactions, Models, Theoretical, Species Specificity, Time Factors, Ecosystem, Food Chain, Plants, Genetically Modified, Herbicide Resistance
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