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SUBMITTER: Ali A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4831012 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ali Abid A Desneux Nicolas N Lu Yanhui Y Liu Bing B Wu Kongming K
Scientific reports 20160414
Planting Bt cotton in China since 1997 has led to important changes in the natural enemy communities occurring in cotton, however their specific effect on suppressing the cotton aphids (being notorious in conventional cotton ecosystem) has not been fully documented yet. We observed strong evidence for top-down control of the aphid population, e.g. the control efficiency of natural enemies on cotton aphid increased significantly in open field cages compared to exclusion cages, accounted for 60.2, ...[more]