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3 - Genetically Modified Bt Crops, Part 1


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In this episode Nash Turley and Hamilton Boyce start a two-part discussion on Bt crops (a type of genetically modified organism) with some background on crop domestication and crop pests.  

 

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References for this episode:

Meyer RS, Purugganan MD. Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification. Nature reviews genetics. 2013. 

Oerke EC. Crop losses to pests. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 2006.

EPA. Pesticides Industry Sales and Usage 2008-20012. https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/pesticides-industry-sales-and-usage-2008-2012-market-estimates 

Chaplin‐Kramer R, O’Rourke ME, Blitzer EJ, Kremen C. A meta‐analysis of crop pest and natural enemy response to landscape complexity. Ecology letters. 2011.

Gould F. The evolutionary potential of crop pests. American Scientist. 1991.

Gallun RL. Genetic basis of Hessian fly epidemics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1977.

Turcotte MM, Araki H, Karp DS, Poveda K, Whitehead SR. The eco-evolutionary impacts of domestication and agricultural practices on wild species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2017.

Whitehead SR, Turcotte MM, Poveda K. Domestication impacts on plant–herbivore interactions: a meta-analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2017. 

If you want to read the full text of any of these articles we suggest copy/pasting the full paper titles into the search bar at Sci Hub, that's how we got access to them :) 

 

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