Title of dissertation: AN ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF BT TRANSGENIC SWEET CORN ON NON-TARGET INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES Robyn Ilene Rose, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Galen P. Dively Department of Entomology An ecological risk assessment evaluating potential adverse affects to non-target arthropods is necessary when releasing a novel transgenic crop. Field stud...

Field tests in 2010-2011 were performed in New York, Minnesota, Maryland, Ohio, and Georgia to compare Bt sweet corn lines expressing Cry1A.105 + Cry2Ab2 and Cry1Ab with their non-Bt isolines, with and without the use of foliar insecticides. The primary insect pest in all locations during the trial years was Heliocoverpa zea (Boddie), which is becoming the most serious insect pest of sweet corn...

Some commercial sweet sorghum syrups can be fraudulently or accidently adulterated with inexpensive sugar syrups, particularly high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or corn syrup, and sold at a relatively low market price or even mis-branded. This undermines the economic stability of the current small-scale producers of food-grade sweet sorghum syrup as well as the developing large-scale bioproduct i...

The study aims to determine the effect of applying for intercropping food crops (rice, corn, and soybeans = jagole ) on cropping index income urban farming community activists. This was conducted by comparing use six models growing crops, namely three kinds monoculture model , upland rice-soybean, sweet corn-soybean, corn-upland rice polyculture/ “ Turiman ”. Observational data includes land ch...

The purpose of this study was to obtain information about the good concentration PGPR for growth and yield reciprocal crosses purple waxy corn sweet (Zea mays L.), effect on character a cross between L.) with maize yield. research conducted in Tegalgondo Village, Karangploso District, Malang Regency, East Java Province. arranged Split-Plot Design consisting 4 main plots (PGPR Concentration) V0 ...

Tolerance to crowding stress has played a crucial role in improving agronomic productivity in field corn; however, commercial sweet corn hybrids vary greatly in crowding stress tolerance. The objectives were to 1) explore transcriptional changes among sweet corn hybrids with differential yield under crowding stress, 2) identify relationships between phenotypic responses and gene expression patt...

Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a native pest of dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and corn (Zea mays L.). As a result of larval feeding damage on corn ears, S. albicosta has a narrow treatment window; thus, early detection of the pest in the field is essential, and egg mass sampling has become a popular monitoring tool. Three action thresholds for field and sweet corn...