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Prof. Jennifer L. Tank Ph.D.


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September 2009: 'Working with colleagues including her former adviser Jennifer Tank at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Rosi-Marshall had found that the streams also contain Bt maize, in the form of leaves, stalks, cobs and pollen. In laboratory studies, the researchers saw that caddis-fly larvae — herbivorous stream insects in the order trichoptera — fed only on Bt maize debris grew half as fast as those that ate debris from conventional maize. And caddis flies fed high concentrations of Bt maize pollen died at more than twice the rate of caddis flies fed non-_Bt pollen. The transgenic maize "may have negative effects on the biota of streams in agricultural areas" the group wrote in its paper, stating in the abstract that "widespread planting of Bt _ crops has unexpected ecosystem-scale consequences"1.'

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090902/full/461027a.html

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RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) University of Notre Dame Organization Jul 1, 2010
Cooperation (past or present) Supervisor of (past or present) Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall Ph.D. Person Jul 1, 2010

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Sep 02, 2009 GM crops: Battlefield: Papers suggesting that biotech crops might harm the environment attract a hail of abuse from other scientists. Emily Waltz asks if the critics fight fair.

QUOTE: some scientists say that this activity [attacking papers that criticize genetically modified crops] may be going beyond what is acceptable in scientific discussions, trampling important research questions and stifling debate.

 Nature