What happens to Bt protein from GM maize when it enters the soil? (long-term monitoring)

(2007 – 2009) Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Institut für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzüchtung more

Does Bt protein from GM maize enter fields through slurry spreading?

(2007 – 2008) Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Institut für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzüchtung more

Production of a Bt toxin standard and development of a measuring procedure to assess the amount of the toxin in Bt maize

(2001 – 2004) State Teaching and Research Centre for Agriculture, Viticulture and Horticulture (SLFA), Neustadt more

Bt maize pollen poses no risk to green lacewings

Scientists at the Swiss research institute Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon (ART) have carried out the first research on adult green lacewings to … more

Persistence of the Bt toxin Cry1Ab in areas where Bt maize is grown

(2004 – 2007) Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL)(since 2008 Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI)), Institute of Agroecology… more

Hot on the trail of transgenic molecules

Genetically modified Bt maize produces an insecticide called Bt toxin. Small quantities of this Bt toxin are released into the soil by the … more

“We found no accumulation at any time.”

How much Bt toxin produced by Bt maize plants is released into the soil and what happens to it when it gets there? Scientists involved in b… more

Bt maize: Effects on soil organisms – a Swiss field study

(2005 – 2006) The Zoological Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland more

Intake, digestion and excretion of Bt proteins by slugs

(2005 – 2007) The Zoological Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland more

“Bees use maize pollen only when there are no alternatives.”

(18 July 2007) The Braunschweig administrative court has refused a fast-track appeal against the cultivation of genetically modified Bt maize.… more